Traditional rocket artillery relies on frontline reconnaissance, target information transmission, and manual decision-making. Once intelligence lags, the opportunity to strike vanishes in an instant. However, China's long-range rocket artillery system now seems to have mastered the "tapping acupoint" technique — not only can it fire far and accurately, but it can also independently conduct reconnaissance, intelligent identification, and rapid response, even achieving precise strikes against transient and moving targets!

Behind all this is China's first intelligent reconnaissance and strike integrated loitering munition, Feilong-60A, developed by China North Industries Group.

The combination of rocket artillery and loitering munitions has characteristics such as long range, long endurance, fast response, and breaking down barriers between military branches.

Feilong-60A not only continues the long-range strike advantages of rocket artillery, but also integrates the long endurance, strong reconnaissance, and autonomous decision-making features of loitering munitions. Its range is realized through the rocket artillery platform for beyond-line-of-sight strikes, continuous reconnaissance and monitoring of target areas, autonomous networking after launch, and immediate reconnaissance and strike, possessing a rapid response capability that forms a tactical advantage that traditional firepower systems cannot match.

More importantly, it realizes "one vehicle, one system, one battle, one system" — a single vehicle can complete the entire process of reconnaissance, positioning, striking, and evaluation, greatly reducing the complexity and time cost of cross-military coordination, truly achieving "detect and destroy immediately."

In other words, in the past, long-range rocket artillery heavily relied on external intelligence sources such as reconnaissance aircraft, radar, and special forces. The emergence of Feilong-60A has completely changed this model.

It is launched from a modular rocket artillery platform. After takeoff, it can automatically network with the launch system, independently perform battlefield reconnaissance, target identification, and precise strike missions. More astonishingly, it can also network with various loitering munitions, forming an "heterogeneous swarming system," intelligently assigning strike tasks based on target characteristics, achieving multi-munition collaboration and intelligent decision-making.

Li Lei, an expert from Liaoshen of China North Industries, stated: "This is the first time that the Chinese rocket artillery firepower system has achieved intelligent multi-task capabilities without relying on external intelligence resources."

Feilong-60A is not only "smart" but also "powerful." Its multifunctional warhead breaks traditional design, capable of both armor penetration and area damage, able to deal with various targets such as armored vehicles, personnel clusters, light vehicles, and buildings.

To verify its reliability under extreme environments, the research team conducted a series of rigorous tests: leaving it in 70°C high temperature and -55°C low temperature environments for 48 hours; shooting at two layers of 350 mm homogeneous steel armor for penetration testing; setting up 6 mm armor plates at 5 meters and 8 meters away to test fragment damage capability; using pine boards to simulate soft targets to verify fragment density and killing effect.

The results were shocking: the warhead successfully penetrated the first layer of 350 mm armor in both high and low temperature environments; fragments penetrated the 6 mm armor plate, and the pine board was densely pierced; the armor penetration depth exceeded 350 mm, and the area kill effect was significant.

China's long-range fire power has become "omnipotent," and loitering munitions are the true "revolutionaries" of the battlefield. The deployment of Feilong-60A has greatly enhanced the independent combat and rapid response capabilities of our army's long-range firepower, and more importantly, signifies that China's long-range fire power has transitioned from "striking fixed targets" to a comprehensive capability covering "moving targets + transient targets + reconnaissance suppression."

It is not just a loitering munition, but also an intelligent node, an aerial sentry, and a precise killer. Its emergence marks that China's long-range firepower has officially entered a new era of "reconnaissance and strike integration, intelligent networking, and autonomous decision-making."

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