Air-launched Xiongsan missile components turned out to be suspected to be made from China. Chinese Academy of Sciences: Proactive inspection to eliminate doubts

When the Chinese Academy of Sciences was inspecting various missile products to see whether manufacturers were using Chinese-made components, the inspection found that the filter connector for the communication test of the air-launched Xiongsan missile was suspected to be made in China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences immediately notified the manufacturer to come to the institute to explain to eliminate concerns about being made in China. The picture shows the air-launched Xiongsan missile (red box) undergoing a launch test project in July this year. (Photograph by this newspaper; photo by reporter Yu Tailang)

[Reporter Luo Tianbin/Reporting from Taipei] The Chinese Academy of Sciences reduced the size of the Xiongsan missile and adjusted its configuration, then developed it into an air-launched Xiongsan missile. It conducted a launch test in July this year. Currently, adjustments and testing projects are continuing, but there are rumors that the Chinese Academy of Sciences When the CAS was checking whether manufacturers of various missile products used Chinese-made components, the inspection found that the filter connector for the communication test of the air-launched Xiongsan missile was suspected to be made in China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences immediately notified the manufacturer to come to the CAS to explain to the CAS to eliminate concerns about being made in China.

Compared with the ship-launched and land-launched Xiongsan missiles, which are 6.1 meters long, have a projectile diameter of 0.46 meters, and weigh 1,500 kilograms, the air-launched Xiongsan missile developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been significantly reduced to about 5.5 meters in length, has a projectile diameter of 0.36 meters, and weighs about 900 kilograms. After several tests, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is still adjusting the optimal configuration.

The air-launched Xiongsan missiles under evaluation are designed to carry out medium- and long-range strikes against Communist aircraft battle groups or amphibious landing groups. The initial planned range is 250 to 400 kilometers. Once the operational evaluation is completed, it is expected to significantly extend the depth of defense operations.

Regarding the issue of the suspected use of components made in China by manufacturers during a random inspection of missile products, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said today: The filter used for communication testing in the "Phoenix Project" is a hollow mechanical passive component, which is composed of a metal cavity, a resonance structure and a joint. It is a precision-machined part that produces a high-frequency filtering effect. It has no electronic materials and transmission functions. At present, the parts are still in the environmental testing stage in the hospital and have not yet been tested on the communication machine and the aircraft.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences also stated that this case was an action of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to strengthen the inspection of Chinese products. During the test, the joints were suspected to be Chinese products, and the manufacturer was notified to come to the hospital to explain to eliminate concerns about Chinese products.

IDF fighter jets carried air-launched Xiongsan missiles for testing in July this year. The No. 1490 Chingguo fighter jet returned safely. The Xiongsan air-launched missile on the lower right side clearly showed that it had successfully launched and left the aircraft. (Photo by reporter Yu Taro)

In response to the development of air-launched Xiongsan missiles, Zhang Cheng, former Xiongsan chief engineer and current Taoyuan City Economic Development Director, once posted on Facebook that there is a golden rule in systems engineering: "Architecture determines success or failure, and layout sees the future." An excellent system engineer, on the first day of designing a product, thinks not just about the current functions, but about the upgrade space ten years from now. When many people watch the news, they see IDF fighter planes equipped with the powerful "Wanjian Bomb" or the latest "air-launched Yusan", but in the eyes of him, a veteran, this is a "Strategic Foresight" that spans twenty years.

Zhang Cheng described it as "a cross-era layout." He said that this is the reserved space from "Axiang" to "Xiangzhan". Military-standard research and development is the most rigorous. It is like building a house. The foundation has already been prepared and the weight to be added in the future has been calculated. When the IDF was carrying out the ASL (2001-2007) and ASL (No. 1 2009-2013, No. 2 2014-2017) projects, they strengthened the "hardpoints" of the airframe structure and upgraded the mission computer's 32 Bitization and bandwidth optimization of the power bus (Bus) are not temporary ideas, but a "dual digital and physical interface" reserved for today's heavy ammunition.