PL-17 BVR AAM 1.0.0

1.Preface

The specific parameters of this weapon are still extremely mysterious, and very little information has been disclosed to the outside world. Even its actual appearance may be different from the public photos (it is suspected that most of the photos are just inert training version).

Therefore, part of its performance is purely my guess based on the existing data. Based on the "What if" attribute, I try to make it as close as possible to what it should be.

The following is quoted from information provided by Wiki, exactly what I used as a reference to fill in the data:

1. PL-17 is much larger than other long-range air-to-air missiles, at 6 m (20 ft) long (whereas PL-15, AIM-120 are measured around 4 m (13 ft) long), which contains more solid fuel.
2. The extended length makes the missile unfit for the internal weapons bay of the Chengdu J-20.
3. During the flight, PL-17 would rely on inertial guidance, satellite navigation, and data-link to track targets. During the terminal phase, the missile would turn on its multimode seeker with both active AESA radar and IR-homing to track the target autonomously.
4. The missile features a low-drag profile, and maneuverability is provided by four small control fins and thrust-vectoring engines.
5. The range is reportedly between 300–500 km (190–310 mi) by various media, or 400 km (250 mi) class by Royal United Services Institute with a top speed in excess of Mach 4.

2.What's in the mod:

Actually,it include 2 versions：

1.PL-17 —— live ammunition,white paint with black identification ring;
2.PL-17J ——  Inert training version that I made up (because I didn’t know its real type name, I used the initials of the training ammunition in Chinese),blue-green paint, cannot be launched and is only used as a decoration in SF2;

3.Precautions:

1.Due to the large size of thses 2 missiles, they are usually only available on specific station in specific aircrafts, if you can't find them, it's likely that the station is incompatible;

2.The last two pictures are in real life for reference.

4.Usage:

Copy PL-17 and PL-17J folders to your Weapons folder ,then everthing should be fine.