Defense Update November 6, 2018 A new robotic vehicle displayed at ‘Airshow China’ is equipped with a ‘micro-intelligent missile’. The tube-launched weapon weighs only one kilogram but is equipped with energetic rocket propulsion powerful enough to carry it on a flight up to 2,000 meters and a warhead, designed to defeat light armor. The missile that measures 40mm in diameter and 500mm in length looks similar in size and shape to Raytheon’s Pike missile designed that is also launched from 40mm grenade launchers. The weapon uses electro-optical guidance to deliver an accuracy of 0.5 meters with a lethality radius of […]

Next Big Future   August 30, 2018 Conventional rockets rely on chemical explosives or fuel, but the new rockets will be launched using additional electromagnetic force. The report suggested that the new electromagnetic rockets could be deployed in Tibet. With possibly hundreds of kilometres range, from there they would be able to strike the heartland of India. China has widely deployed 300mm PHL-03 rockets, modified from the Soviet BM-30. Those have a flight range of around 150km (about 93 miles) … read more.