YJ-12 - YJ-12 AShM

YJ-12 AShM

YJ-12 anti-ship missile (AShM) is the first family of YJ-12 series. The missile is armed with a newly designed 205 kg warhead, and coupled with it supersonic speed, its destructive power is claimed by the developer to be increased to that of 400-kg warhead of older design on a missiles flying subsonic speed. The developer of YJ-12 has claimed that a 4000 ton class warship is guaranteed to sink after being hit by a single YJ-12. YJ-12 AShM can be armed with a radar seeker, an imaging infrared seeker, or a television seeker, and missiles armed with each seeker also has further options of incorporating one way data link, two way data link, or purely a fire-and-forget weapon without any data link, resulting in a total of nine models in this family. YJ-12 AShM is the only family of YJ-12 with optional sea-skimming capability, though this is achieved at the cost of reduced range.