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I don't think they would even be in the same category. The Taurus and Storm Shadow are both air launch capable, but the KHI missile likely will be only land and sea based with maybe the P-1 having the capacity to carry it. Also comparing range.
My guess is that after the booster section it has TVC just to help a little more with LO construction.
I dunno, it looks like a simple cylinder, not an LO faceted/edge aligned shape...
North Korea; the county who's entire BW surface fleet could be eliminated by half a battery of Type 12s? Fired from Australia? This is a message to China.
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2024年版防衛白書、12式地対艦誘導弾能力向上型の最新写真を掲載（高橋浩祐） - エキスパート - Yahoo!ニュース
防衛省は7月12日に公表した2024年版防衛白書の中で、現在開発中の12式地対艦誘導弾（ミサイル）能力向上型の試作品の最新写真を掲載した。写真のキャプションには、「地上での様々な試験に耐えた12式地対news.yahoo.co.jp
Upgraded Type12 SSM：
Link not working in EEA and UK message comes up.2024年版防衛白書、12式地対艦誘導弾能力向上型の最新写真を掲載（高橋浩祐） - エキスパート - Yahoo!ニュース
防衛省は7月12日に公表した2024年版防衛白書の中で、現在開発中の12式地対艦誘導弾（ミサイル）能力向上型の試作品の最新写真を掲載した。写真のキャプションには、「地上での様々な試験に耐えた12式地対
Upgraded Type12 SSM：
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I think the solution is to just do regular rotations through Australia like what is planned for the F-35. Japan is already starting up it's program of regular deployment rotations of F-35s to Australia, so it wouldn't be too hard to expand that agreement out. Japan has already done multiple live firings of shore based AShMs out of Australia and I'm sure they wouldn't mind having a regular rotation of Japanese AShM batteries that could cover the entire Banda Arc from Darwin. I can see the issue with having to ship the batteries all the way out there, but if this Minamitorishima range doesn't work out then it's a good fallback point instead of having to ship them all the way out to the US like with what was done before.Japan Plans New Missile Range In Southeastern Island - Naval News
Japan Ministry of Defense is planning to establish a new missile range in the island of Minamitorishima for the Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile
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For testing, it's not any shorter to Aus than it is to the US.
Different mission payloads
To explain it well, we need to look at the KJ300 which was the previous version.
There is one more iteration being the WR-402 which does have around 315kgf SLS, but I couldn't findany SFC on it, but it likely would increase over the 400 anyways. The KJ300 is still a really impressive turbofan to come out of KHI and I hope we get specific numbers on the KJ301 to know how much the size has been reduced.
