aircraft/loadouts PL-5 Air-to-Air Missile

[John_JIANG 126]

PL-5 Air-to-Air Missile

霹雳-5空空导弹

Figure: PL-5B AAM.

 

Story: 

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In 1966, China began to develop the PL-5 (霹雳-5, pinyin: Pi Li - 5, meaning Thunderbolt-5) air-to-air missile. It initially planned to develop two types of guidance system, namely semi-active radar and passive infrared, designated as PL-5A and PL-5B respectively, where the project of developing PL-5A was cancelled later. 

The main research unit is the 612th Institute affiliated to the Ministry of Aviation Industry (now the Luoyang Solar Power Technology Development Center). In 1966, the first batch of sample missiles of PL-5B was assembled, and ground and air launch tests were conducted. However, due to the interference and technical problems of the Cultural Revolution, PL-5B did not complete the design finalization until 1986.

 

 

Features of PL-5B: 

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[Warning: the following paragraph is Google translated.

corrections: near-fuze --> Proximity fuze]

The missile uses the canard aerodynamic layout and is composed of a guidance control component, a warhead, an infrared near-fuze or a radio near-fuze, a solid rocket motor, a duck rudder surface, and a triangular wing. The infrared seeker is cooled by compressed air, has high sensitivity, and has the ability to resist background radiation interference. The warhead uses high-explosive explosives, including anti-explosive fragmentation and continuous rod types. The former is equipped with infrared proximity fuses, and the latter is equipped with radio proximity fuses. These two types of warheads and their proximity fuses can be used interchangeably. The effective killing radius of the warhead is 10m. The infrared near-fuze fuze has strong anti-interference ability and high initiation reliability. The maximum missed amount of the bomb is 9m.

 

 

Specifications: 

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Max range    10km(PL-5A)

                     16km(PL-5B)

Min range     1300m

Max speed    M2.2

Service Alt    1000～18000m(PL-5A)
                      500～21500m(PL-5B)

Overload       30G

Guidance　   Semi-active radar(PL-5A)
　　　　　    Passive infrared(PL-5B)

Fuze　           Radio Fuze

                      Infrared Optical Fuze
Warhead        High-explosive, 30kg

Propulsion　  Solid rocket engine
Weight           150kg(PL-5A)
　　　　　    148kg(PL-5B)

Length           3.235m(PL-5A)

　　　　        3.128m(PL-5B)

Diameter        190mm

Wingspan       657mm

 

 

Remarks: 

PL-5B is suitable for J-7II. I hope the missile could be added to modifications of J-7II. 

Any suggestions? Please leave a comment below. 

 

Reference: 

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霹雳-5(PL-5)空空导弹 https://bbs.tiexue.net/post2_12911135_1.html

霹雳-5空空导弹 https://baike.baidu.com/item/霹雳-5空空导弹/2304427?fr=aladdin

长空霹雳：霹雳-5近距空空导弹 http://mil.sohu.com/20150315/n409808730.shtml 

“霹雳”5红外制导近程空空导弹(PL-5) http://www.zgjunshi.com/Article/Class38/Class89/Class93/200407/20040709200530.html

 

 

 

Edited December 25, 2019 by John_JIANG

[ItssLuBu 1,798]

Approved and open for discussion. 

[Milocat 4,848]

+1 for a better Chinese missile.  New missles for all nations are coming.

[MonkeyBussiness 1,228]

30g ? omg it's like the matra magic 1

[Borotovas 4,500]

+1

[John_JIANG 126]

On 27/12/2019 at 21:21, MonkeyBussiness said:

30g ? omg it's like the matra magic 1

 

It's just paper data. The PL-5B is comparable to AIM-9D in terms of technology and performance.  

 

Some other sources say PL-5B has 20G max overload and PL-5C has 30G, where PL-5C is only different from PL-5B in its double delta control surfaces. I'm not sure about the reliability of these sources.

[MonkeyBussiness 1,228]

On 29/12/2019 at 06:22, John_JIANG said:

 

It's just paper data. The PL-5B is comparable to AIM-9D in terms of technology and performance.  

 

Some other sources say PL-5B has 20G max overload and PL-5C has 30G, where PL-5C is only different from PL-5B in its double delta control surfaces. I'm not sure about the reliability of these sources.

double delta control work really fine , look how it is on the matra magic

[_Pixy 196]

+1

[完颜阿骨打 18]

+1

[Minibucket 34]

+1 Currently the 10.3 of chinese aviation techtree is unplayable. NEED STRONGER PUNCH.

[efetenekeci 1,841]

If J7-3 comes to the game we can have the PL-5 which will be equal of 9J

[John_JIANG 126]

Update: 

Some more reliable sources are found. The specifications of PL-5B and PL-5C (as well as PL-8) are included in the Additional information on Missiles section in the following topic. The article is from a magazine and it got published in 2004. Link: 

 

[Bringer_Of_War 901]

Long overdue missile... 

[wilusXD 436]

+

PL-2 is already useless in top tier.

PLA need good AAM like R550.

[LagDriver 15]

i suffered too much on PL2 of J-7

PL-2 really gave me a surprise that HOW COULD this thing in 10.3?

even can't be lauched over 2 G which means we could never use this thing in dog fight.

J-7's elder brother mig-21-f13 have went to 9.7 but j-7 is still in 10.3 suffered heavily pressure from AIM-9J or whatever missile u could think about from 10.3/10.7BR.

china aviation TT need more love.

 

[MonkeyBussiness 1,228]

On 01/12/2020 at 03:58, LagDriver said:

i suffered too much on PL2 of J-7

PL-2 really gave me a surprise that HOW COULD this thing in 10.3?

even can't be lauched over 2 G which means we could never use this thing in dog fight.

J-7's elder brother mig-21-f13 have went to 9.7 but j-7 is still in 10.3 suffered heavily pressure from AIM-9J or whatever missile u could think about from 10.3/10.7BR.

china aviation TT need more love.

 

J-7 is 10.0 but agreed for the rest

[wilusXD 436]

PL-5B is discovered in Dev stream.

[leroyonly 4,310]

As the PL-5B AAM has been implemented with update 2.7 Red Skies,

 

Moved to Implemented Suggestions.