China is adapting artillery shells for use as high-precision gliding bombs.
The photos of the adapted ammunition were posted by user Jesus Roman on X.
The 152 and 155 mm DLB-P artillery shells are the first to be adapted, with a high-precision navigation kit attached to them.
This kit uses an inertial guidance system combined with GPS satellite navigation.
As the author of the publication notes, these systems were developed for use by the Chinese Air Force, although they are not currently in widespread use.
It should be noted that China is implementing a large-scale program to create high-precision kits for aerial bombs, and within this program, in addition to standard aviation ammunition, artillery shells have also begun to be used.
Such systems can be used from drones and other aircraft capable of carrying and using them. Their exact flight range is currently unknown, but according to available estimates, it is about 50 km when dropped from an altitude of 5–6 km.
Separately, China has developed special high-precision HuoShi 1-130 kits for use with drones. This is a modular trajectory planning and correction system developed by Henan Unmanned Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.
The system provides a flight range of 6 to 65 km and uses Beidou navigation, inertial and geomagnetic systems. The ammunition is equipped with an electronic fuse with the ability to detonate in the air and a data transmission channel for automatic target coordinate input.
Chinese companies have also developed the LS-6 kit, which allows the creation of high-precision ammunition weighing 50 kg with a flight range of up to 60 km. The LS-6 guidance system is based on inertial and satellite navigation and can be equipped with laser guidance if necessary.
Earlier, Militarnyi reported that China’s Skywalker had unveiled an aircraft-type drone controlled “on a leash” with the use of a fiber-optic cable.
The Skywalker fiber-optic drone has a maximum flight speed of 190 km.
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