H-6K, China's only long-range strategic bomber is better known for carrying six CJ-10A cruise missiles geared for long-range and stand-off attacks. It also made news recently for its "routine" drills over the West Pacific. What is being overlooked here is its ole-school, iron bomb payload -- increased by the pair of Soloviev D-30 turbofans and extra fuel capacity -- it's 9-ton can of whoop ass can make short work of any "new structure" in the South China Sea.
6x6=36!
Case-in-point: Cavite, Luzon Island, Philippines after being bombed by American B-24 Liberators, January 1945
Before and After
CCTV capture of the day: Another "routine" drill over the West Pacific, this time with more than 40 birds
It seems another "routine package" of H-6K with
KD-20/DF-10K long-range cruise missiles, KJ-2000 Mainring AWAC and, Il-78 tankers and Su-30MKK heavy fighters.
China Air Force Conducts West Pacific Drill, Patrols ADIZ
Source
Xinhua
Editor
Dong Zhaohui
Time
2016-09-25
NANJING,
Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Air Force on Sunday sent more than 40
aircraft of various types to the West Pacific, via the Miyako Strait,
for a routine drill on the high seas, a spokesperson said.
Shen
Jinke, spokesperson of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, said the
fleet, including H-6K bombers, Su-30 fighters, and air tankers,
conducted reconnaissance and early warning, attacks on sea surface
targets, and in-flight refueling to test the Air Force's fighting
capacity on the high seas.
Bombers and fighters of the PLA Air
Force also conducted routine patrol in the East China Sea Air Defense
Identification Zone (ADIZ), the spokesperson said at an east China
airport.
Shen said routine drills in the West Pacific and patrols
in the East China Sea ADIZ are conducted "in accordance with the needs
of the Air Force to defend national sovereignty and security, as well as
to maintain peaceful development."
Since the East China Sea ADIZ was set up nearly three years ago, the Air Force has kept regular patrols.
The
Air Force will continue patrolling in the East China Sea ADIZ to uphold
the legitimate rights and interests of China. It will keep conducting
various training to improve its combat capacity, Shen said.
H-6K conducted its first long-range maritime strike exercise in the West Pacific
PLA Air Force conducts first training in West Pacific
(Source: China Military Online) 2015-03-30
BEIJING, March 30 (ChinaMil) -- In order to promote its maneuvering
combat capability, the Air Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
(PLAAF) for the first time organized its aviation troops to go to the
airspace above the West Pacific Ocean to carry out military training,
Shen Jinke, spokesman of the PLA Air Force, said in south China’s
Guangzhou province on March 30, 2015.
The warplanes of the PLA Air Force flew to the West Pacific for
training via the Bashi Channel on March 30 and returned on the same day
after finishing the training and achieving the given goal, according to
Shen.
Training in the airspace far from China is an effective way for the
PLA Air Force to temper its combat capability and also a common practice
of world powers' air forces, Col. Shen said.
Shen said that the military training in the airspace above the Western
Pacific by the PLA Air Force is a routine arrangement of the annual
training plan for the PLA Air Force and also a normal requirement of
China's national defense construction.
Shen pointed out that this training by the PLA Air Force complies with
relevant international laws and practices, is not aimed at any country
or target and poses no threat to any country or region.
Photo of the day: The aggressor H-6K practicing a low-level penetration
bomb run against a PLAAF anti-defense brigade during a confrontational
drill
The newsworthy of this picture is not the low-level penetration bomb run
-- which the K model is primarily designed to perform -- rather the
serial number of 11193 confirming that the PLAAF 8th Bomber Division now
has at least 14 H-6K (god of war) model in its orbat.
The other H-6K unit is the PLAAF 10th bomber division
PLAAF "in the news" of the day: H-6K, god-of-war (small g)
H-6K bombers delivered to PLA Air Force
By Chen Boyuan
China.org.cn, June 22, 2013
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-06/22/content_29197824.htm
The
Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force recently received 15 H-6K
bombers with nuclear capabilities, according to British military digest
Jane’s Defence Weekly.
The H-6K, an updated version of the H-6
bomber, is a medium-sized craft designed for long-range attacks,
stand-off attacks and large-area air patrol. Unlike its predecessor, the
H-6K can carry cruise missiles under its wings. The H6-K also maneuvers
more deftly than the H-6 and requires a smaller crew to operate. Jane’s
Defence was the first media outlet to confirm that the H6-K had
formally entered active service.
The most visible departure from
the H-6 is the H6-K’s nose, where a nose randome has replaced a
navigation cabin. Military expert Fu Qianshao said that the H6-K’s nose
should greatly improve avionics, search and detection, navigation, fire
control and weapon precision.
Fu said that the H-6K has a larger
engine inlet than does the H-6, which may mean that the newer bomber’s
engines have greater thrust. If so, the H-6K would also have a greater
maximum takeoff weight and payload than the H-6. A more favorable
weight-to-thrust ratio would improve fuel efficiency and lengthen
cruising range, Fu said.
H-6K reportedly has a combat radius of
3,500 KM. The nuclear-capable Changjian (long sword)-10 cruise missiles
it carries have a range of 1,500-2,000 KM, effectively extending the
bomber’s combat range to 4,000-5,000 KM - long enough to reach Okinawa,
Guam and even Hawaii from China’s mainland.
Analysts stipulated
that PLA Air Force missiles be able to reach Taiwan, southwestern Japan
and Guam, a range of control that requires a 3,000-KM combat radius and
powerful attack capability. Only the combined combat radii of the H6-K
and Changjian-10 currently satisfy the length requirement.
