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Author: Michael Pilger, Research Fellow, Security and Foreign Affairs 

Acknowledgments: James Acton, Christopher Carlson, Jeffrey Engstrom, Robert Haddick, Christopher 

Twomey, and Christopher Yeaw provided helpful insights and reviewed drafts of this paper, but do not 

necessarily agree with or endorse the assessments and statements contained herein. Errors and views are 

the author’s own.

China’s New YJ-18 Antiship Cruise Missile: 

Capabilities and Implications for U.S. 

Forces in the Western Pacific
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Introduction

In April 2015, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence confirmed that China has deployed the YJ-18 antiship cruise 

missile (ASCM) on some People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy submarines and surface ships.

1 The YJ-18’s 

greater range and speed than previous Chinese ASCMs, along with its wide deployment across PLA platforms,

would significantly increase China’s antiaccess/area denial capabilities*against U.S. Navy surface ships operating 

in the Western Pacific during a potential conflict. The YJ-18 probably will be widely deployed on China’s

indigenously built ASCM-capable submarines and newest surface ships by 2020, and China could develop a variant 

of the YJ-18 to replace older missiles in its shore-based ASCM arsenal. This paper assesses the capabilities of the 

YJ-18 and describes the implications of its wide deployment for U.S. forces operating in the Western Pacific. The 

author exclusively used open source information and considered the capabilities of similar missiles to assess the 

likely characteristics of the YJ-18.†

Characteristics of the YJ-18

 Speed: The YJ-18 has a subsonic cruise speed, reportedly about 600 miles per hour (mph), or Mach 0.8.2

Media reports suggest that when the missile is about 20 nautical miles (nm) from its target, the warhead 

accelerates to supersonic speed, reportedly up to Mach 3.0.

3 The more fuel-efficient subsonic stage of the 

YJ-18’s flight increases its overall range, and the supersonic terminal flight stage reduces the time adversary

forces have to engage the missile.4

 Range: According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the YJ-18 has a range of 290 nm.

5,‡ The YJ-18’s 

predecessor on many Chinese submarines, the YJ-82, has a range of about 20 nm.6

 Flight path: The YJ-18 most likely follows a sea-skimming flight path as it approaches its target.7 By flying 

only a few meters above the sea, the missile attempts to evade detection by surface radar until it breaks the 

radar horizon 16 to 18 nm from its target.8

 Payload: Authoritative open source information on the YJ-18’s physical dimensions, including the size of 

its conventional warhead, is scarce. Some sources, including an IHS Jane’s report, suggest the YJ-18’s 

warhead weighs 300 kilograms (kg),

9

though other sources suggest it weighs only 140 kg.10

 Targeting: China is focused on building a robust C4ISR§system for detecting ships and aircraft over the 

horizon, which would provide targeting data to antiship missiles such as the YJ-18.

11 This system 

 

* According to the U.S. Department of Defense, “antiaccess” actions are intended to slow deployment of an adversary’s forces into a 

theater or cause them to operate at distances farther from the conflict than they would prefer. “Area denial” actions affect maneuvers

within a theater, and are intended to impede an adversary’s operations within areas where friendly forces cannot or will not prevent 

access. China, however, uses the term “counterintervention,” reflecting its perception that such operations are reactive. U.S. Department 

of Defense, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2013, 2013, i, 32, 33; U.S. Department of 

Defense, Air Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access & Area Denial Challenges, May 2013, 2.

† The YJ-18 is widely reported to be a variant of the Russian SS-N-27 Klub ASCM, but the extent of the similarities between the two 

missiles is unknown. Lyle J. Goldstein, “China’s YJ-18 Supersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missile: America’s Nightmare?” National Interest, 

June 1, 2015. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-yj-18-supersonic-anti-ship-cruise-missile-americas-13010?page=show; U.S. 

Department of Defense, Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 

2015, May 2015, 46; Sputnik News, “China’s YJ-18 Missiles a ‘Major Threat’ to US Navy,” April 15, 2015. 

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150415/1020902506.html; and Want China Times, “PLA's YJ-18 Anti-Ship Missile Useful against US 

Carrier Group,” December 3, 2014. http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20141203000057&cid=1101.

‡ Sources disagree on the assessed range of the YJ-18. The U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence has not publicly reported the estimated range 

of the missile, but has said the YJ-18 “extends a similar capability” to China’s ASCM submarines as does the SS-N-27 ASCM, which 

has a range of 120 nm. Christopher Carlson, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer, estimates the YJ-18’s range is 

similar to that of the SS-N-27. Reporting by IHS Jane’s also supports an estimate of the YJ-18’s range of about 120 nm. Christopher 

Carlson, former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer, interview with Commission staff, October 1, 2015; IHS Jane’s, “Jane’s 

Strategic Weapon Systems: Yong Ji-18 (YJ-18),” June 5, 2015; and U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, The PLA Navy: New Capabilities 

and Missions for the 21st Century, April 2015, 19.

§ C4ISR stands for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
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incorporates an array of ship-borne and land-based radar (including over-the-horizon radar); a constellation 

of imaging satellites; and a variety of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft.

12 However, 

China’s C4ISR infrastructure might be insufficient to generate and fuse the targeting information necessary 

to take advantage of the YJ-18’s assessed range.13 According to the Department of Defense, “It is ... unclear 

whether China has the capability to collect accurate targeting information and pass it to launch platforms 

in time for successful [antiship missile] strikes in sea areas beyond the first island chain.”14,* Moreover, 

some systems in China’s C4ISR infrastructure may be vulnerable to countermeasures, such as 

electromagnetic warfare operations, that could degrade the ability of the PLA to detect, identify, and track 

enemy ships and employ antiship missiles against them in a contingency.

15

 Navigation: The YJ-18 most likely is capable of using waypoint navigation and onboard radar-seeking 

technology to navigate to its target.16

Deployment of the YJ-18

China’s SHANG II-class nuclear attack submarines are widely reported to have been outfitted with vertical missile

launchers, which may indicate these submarines already carry the YJ-18.17 Ultimately, China will deploy the YJ18 on its YUAN-class air-independent diesel attack submarines (currently numbering 12), SONG-class diesel attack 

submarines (currently numbering 13), and SHANG I- and SHANG II-class nuclear attack submarines (currently

numbering two each).

18 Previously, all of these submarines—possibly excluding the SHANG II-class—carried the 

subsonic YJ-82.

19 China most likely will also deploy the YJ-18 on its Type 095 nuclear attack submarine, which is 

still under development.

20 China’s ASCM-capable submarine fleet also includes eight Russian-built KILO-class 

diesel attack submarines carrying the Russian SS-N-27 ASCM, which has supersonic sprint capabilities similar to 

the YJ-18 and a range of 120 nm.21 China also operates three aging HAN-class nuclear submarines capable of firing 

the YJ-82, but these boats are unlikely to be upgraded to carry the YJ-18.22

The YJ-18’s wide deployment would reduce missile production costs, streamline missile maintenance, and increase 

the range and firepower of many platforms and missile units. China could deploy YJ-18 variants to replace diverse 

ASCMs across the PLA. China already has deployed a surface-launched YJ-18 variant on some of its LUYANG 

III-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs), and may deploy the YJ-18 on its future Type 055 DDG.

23 The YJ-18

improves the range and lethality of the LUYANG III, which was already equipped with advanced missile and 

missile defense capabilities, including what some Chinese media call the “Chinese Aegis.”

24 In addition, China 

could develop a ground-launched variant of the YJ-18 to replace the subsonic YJ-62 ASCM (range of 150 nm) in 

shore-based missile units.

Implications for U.S. Military Operations in the Western Pacific

The YJ-18’s supersonic speed and long range, as well as its wide deployment on PLA Navy platforms, could have 

serious implications for the ability of U.S. Navy surface ships to operate freely in the Western Pacific in a 

contingency.

 The YJ-18’s assessed 290 nm range creates a threat ring covering approximately 264,200 square nautical 

miles (sq nm), compared to the YJ-82’s threat ring of about 1,250 sq nm. These larger threat rings will 

greatly expand the area U.S. forces must monitor for PLA Navy submarine activity (see Figure 1). Although 

many submarines that will carry the YJ-18 are relatively noisy, the process of detecting and engaging these 

submarines will complicate the task of defending U.S. Navy surface ships from cruise missile attacks.25

 

* The first island chain refers to a line of islands running through the Kurile Islands, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the Philippines, 

Borneo, and Natuna Besar. The second island chain is farther east, running through the Kurile Islands, Japan, the Bonin Islands, the 

Mariana Islands, and the Caroline Islands. PLA strategists and academics have long asserted the United States relies primarily on the 

first island chain and the second island chain to strategically “encircle” or “contain” China and prevent the PLA Navy from operating 

freely in the Western Pacific. Open Source Center, “PRC Article Surveys China’s Naval Rivals, Challenges,” January 6, 2012. ID: 

CPP20120109671003; Bernard D. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea (Second Edition), Naval Institute Press, 2010, 174–176.
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Figure 1: Potential Overlapping Threat Rings of Three YJ-18-Equipped Submarines (Red Markers) and 

Potential Threat Rings of Three YJ-82-Equipped Submarines (Yellow Markers)

Note: The locations of the submarines in this image are hypothetical, and the ranges depicted are approximate. Three YJ-82-equipped 

submarines are depicted near the Chinese mainland for clarity, rather than to suggest these submarines would necessarily operate in these 

waters in a contingency. In a Taiwan contingency, PLA Navy ASCM-equipped submarines likely would attempt to challenge points of 

ingress for U.S. Navy surface ships entering the theater. The threat rings of the YJ-18-equipped submarines reflect the maximum assessed 

range of the YJ-18. In a contingency, technical limitations, such as a lack of accurate targeting data, could significantly shorten the effective 

range of the YJ-18.

Source: GmapGIS; Google Earth.

 The YJ-18’s wide deployment and long range would increase China’s ability to launch standoff* multi-axis, 

multi-missile attacks against U.S. Navy surface ships. Such attacks are formidable challenges for shipboard 

defenses, and the YJ-18’s supersonic sprint capabilities will further increase the likelihood some missiles 

would penetrate a U.S. ship’s missile defenses.26 The YJ-18 is one of a variety of antiship missiles that

provide China a multilayered antiaccess/area denial capability in its near seas†and beyond (see Figure 2). 

In a 2014 volume on China’s cruise missiles, China military experts Dennis Gormley, Andrew Erickson, 

and Jingdong Yuan assessed, “It appears that China’s increasing ASCM inventory has increasing potential 

to saturate U.S. Navy defenses.”

27

 

* Standoff capability refers to a platform’s ability to fire from a range that increases its chance of surviving an exchange of fire.

† China typically defines its “near seas” as waters within the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea.
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Figure 2: Selected Chinese Antiship Missiles28

Designator and 

Missile Type

Platform Top Speed Approximate Range (nm)

YJ-83 ASCM Air and surface variants Subsonic 100+

YJ-82 ASCM Subsurface Subsonic 20

YJ-81 ASCM Air Subsonic 27

YJ-8A ASCM Surface Subsonic 23

YJ-62 ASCM Ground and surface variants Subsonic 150

YJ-18 ASCM Subsurface and surface variants Supersonic 290

YJ-12 ASCM Air Supersonic 216

SS-N-27 ASCM Subsurface Supersonic 120

SS-N-22 ASCM Surface Supersonic 65

DF-21D ASBM Ground Supersonic 810+

DF-26 ASBM Ground Supersonic 1,620+

Note: The DF-21D and DF-26 are antiship ballistic missiles (ASBMs).*

 The U.S. Navy is exploring advanced ship defense technologies—such as electromagnetic railguns and 

directed energy weapons—that could mitigate the vulnerability of U.S. Navy surface ships to long-range, 

supersonic missile strikes.29 The U.S. Navy currently lacks a supersonic ASCM, but has acquired seaskimming supersonic target vehicles to simulate attacks by supersonic ASCMs and to develop defenses 

against similar missiles.30

 China’s long-distance submarine deployments in recent years, including deployments of SHANG- and 

YUAN-class submarines to the Indian Ocean, suggest Chinese submarines carrying the YJ-18 could impede 

the progress of a carrier strike group in the Western Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, and could hold at risk 

a carrier strike group in the Western Pacific.31

 

* During China’s September 2015 military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, China debuted the DF-26 

intermediate-range ballistic missile, which the parade announcer described as having antiship capabilities. This announcement appears to 

confirm western media speculation about the antiship capabilities of the DF-26. However, authoritative information from U.S. 

government sources on the DF-26’s capabilities is not publicly available. Andrew S. Erickson, “Showtime: China Reveals Two ‘CarrierKiller’ Missiles,” National Interest, September 3, 2015. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/showtime-china-reveals-two-carrier-killermissiles-13769; Wendell Minnick, “China’s Parade Puts US Navy on Notice,” Defense News, September 3, 2015. 

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/naval/2015/09/03/chinas-parade-puts-us-navy-notice/71632918/; Richard D. Fisher Jr., 

“China Previews New Ballistic Missiles in Practices for September 3 Parade,” IHS Jane’s Defense Weekly, August 30, 2015. 

http://www.janes.com/article/53896/china-previews-new-ballistic-missiles-in-practices-for-3-september-parade; and Bill Gertz, “China 

Fields New Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile,” Washington Free Beacon, March 3, 2014. http://freebeacon.com/nationalsecurity/china-fields-new-intermediate-range-nuclear-missile/.
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3

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6

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