Beijing: The Chinese Navy is getting stronger day by day. The country is adding new and state-of-the-art ships to its navy every year. China once again increased its navy, setting a new example on April 19, when the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) released a shocking video clip showing an unidentified missile being fired from a Type 055 guided-missile cruiser. has been shown.
The new weapon is considered by most commentators to be an anti-ship ballistic missile, referred to by analysts under the nomenclature YJ-21. If this analysis of the YJ-21 turns out to be correct, it would mean that China would become the first country in the world to have operationally launched such a missile from a naval ship.
Ballistic missiles are equipped with all modern technology, in which the launch path is a sub-orbital ballistic path. This missile is used to fire a weapon at a predetermined target.
Seen in the video clip
A video clip released by the People’s Liberation Army Navy showed the YJ-21 being fired from the battleship Wuxi, a Type 055 cruiser that had been commissioned in Qingdao a month earlier, in March. It can be seen in the video clip that the new Chinese weapon has short wings and a bionic nose. The missile’s small control surfaces suggest that it is not a surface-to-air missile (SAM), but a class that requires extreme maneuvering to hit fast-moving aircraft.
No performance specifications are known about the YJ-21 yet, but it could have a range of anywhere from 1,000 km to 1,500 km. The South China Morning Post reported that the YJ-21 was credited with a terminal velocity of Mach 10, or ten times the speed of sound.
