China’s PL-17 Revealed: 400km ‘AWACS-Killer’ Missile Signals Major Shift in Global Airpower Balance - Defence Security Asia
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High-resolution imagery of China’s PL-17 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile confirms a 400km engagement capability designed to target AWACS, tanker aircraft and bombers, a development analysts say could fundamentally change modern air warfare and challenge Western air superiority.
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Please stop sharing propaganda. This is old news. Nothing shifted. And if ir did, it happened a decade ago.

Wikipedia: The missile was tested on a Shenyang J-16 fighter in 2016. (…) In October 2022, Chinese state media reported that the PL-17 entered PLAAF service.[8]

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