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October 17, 2017: In 2017 China announced that it had developed two new laser guided missiles for use on UAVs, helicopters and fixed wing warplanes. The smaller one is the AR-2, which is a copy of the American APKWS. AR-2 weighs 17 kg (40 pounds) with a five kg warhead and 8 kilometer range. APKWS is a smaller Hellfire type design based on World War II era 70mm unguided rockets that is proving very useful. This mini-Hellfire is basically a 13.6 kg (30 pound) 70mm rockets, with a laser seeker, flight controls, a 2.7 kg (six pound) warhead, and a range of about six kilometers.
The other new Chinese missile is an 80 kg (176 pound) missile that apparently has, in addition to laser guidance, a new LOBL (Lock-On Before Launch) capability that uses some new targeting system features of the larger Chinese UAVs (like the CH-4, CH-5 and GJ-1) and probably involves “fire and forget” capabilities as used in the British Brimstone.
China has always offered Chinese made weapons for their larger UAVs. Chief among these are a Hellfire clone, the AR-1. This is a 45 kg (99 pound) missile with a max range of 10 kilometers and a 10 kg (22 pound) warhead. AR-1 can be equipped with either GPS or laser guidance. AR-1 first showed up in the late 1990s as the HJ-10. That missile, as is the Chinese custom, evolved into several different, but similar, weapons. The AR-1 and BA-7 are most often offered for use on UAVs as a Hellfire substitute.
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