ASRAAM vs PL-15: Specs Compared

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AMissiles

ASRAAM

ASRAAM: Short-range air-to-air missile Raven: Short-range surface-to-air missile system

BMissiles

PL-15

Beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile

Credit

颐园居 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

ASRAAMLength

2.9 m

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PL-15PL-15E

3.996 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Measured figures

Head to head

13 of 19 rows sourced on both sides

2.9m

4mPL-15E

Length

All recorded figures & sources

2.9 m

Length

Single source

2.90 m (9 ft 6 in)^[source]

3.996 m

PL-15E

Single source

Configuration

Details

ASRAAM and PL-15 configuration
Specification	ASRAAM	PL-15
Speed	Mach 3+^[source]	Mach 5+^[source]
Type	ASRAAM: Short-range air-to-air missile Raven: Short-range surface-to-air missile system^[source]	Beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile^[source]
Place of origin	United Kingdom^[source]	People's Republic of China^[source]
In service	1998^[source]	2016–present^[source]

Used by	Royal Air Force Armed Forces of Ukraine Indian Air Force Royal Australian Air Force (historical)^[source]	People's Liberation Army Air Force^[source]Operator listed in the retained article; inventory date not specified People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force^[source]Operator listed in the retained article; inventory date not specified Pakistan Air Force^[source]Operator listed in the retained article; inventory date not specified

Used by

Royal Air Force Armed Forces of Ukraine Indian Air Force Royal Australian Air Force (historical)^[source]

People's Liberation Army Air Force^[source]Operator listed in the retained article; inventory date not specified

People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force^[source]Operator listed in the retained article; inventory date not specified

Pakistan Air Force^[source]Operator listed in the retained article; inventory date not specified

Wars	Russo-Ukrainian War (Raven)^[source]	—

Manufacturer	MBDA UK Bharat Dynamics Limited (India)^[source]	China Airborne Missile Academy (CAMA)^[source]

Unit cost	>£200,000^[source]	—

Variants	Common Anti-aircraft Modular Missile (Sea Ceptor/Sky Sabre)^[source]	—

Warhead	10 kg (22 lb) blast/fragmentation^[source]	—

Detonation mechanism	Laser proximity fuze and impact^[source]	—

Engine	Dual-burn, high-impulse solid rocket motor^[source]	Dual-pulsed solid-propellant rocket^[source]

Guidance system	Blocks 1-5: Hughes (Raytheon) Imaging infrared homing , 128×128 element focal plane array , with lock-on after launch (LOAL) and strapdown inertial guidance Block 6+: Domestic MBDA UK Seeker^[source]	Active radar homing^[source]

Launch platform	Royal Air Force : Typhoon Royal Air Force and Royal Navy : F-35 Lightning II Indian Air Force : Jaguar SHORAD (e.g. Raven, a 'FrankenSAM' vehicle consisting of a Supacat 6×6 mounted with ASRAAM launch rails taken from decommissioned RAF jets)^[source]	J-20 , J-35 , J-10C , J-15T , J-16 , J-11BG , JF-17 Block-3^[source]