HQ-9
| HQ-9 | |
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An HQ-9 portable launcher during China's 60th anniversary parade in 2009.
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| Type | Surface-to-air missile |
| Place of origin | China |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1997 |
| Used by |
People's Liberation Army Air Force People's Liberation Army Navy |
| Production history | |
| Manufacturer | China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC) |
| Produced | 1980s |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 1300 kg |
| Length | 6.8 m |
| Warhead weight | 180 kg |
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| Engine | Two-stage solid propellant rocket |
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Operational
range |
200 km (slant range) |
| Flight ceiling | 27 km (88,582 ft) |
| Speed | Mach 4.2 |
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Guidance
system |
Inertial guidance with mid-course update and terminal active radar homing |
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Launch
platform |
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The HQ-9 (Chinese: 红旗; pinyin: hóng qí, "red flag" or "red banner") is China’s new generation medium- to long-range, active radar homing surface-to-air missile.
Similar to the Russian S-300 and American Patriot systems, the HQ-9 uses a HT-233 PESA radar system. The naval HQ-9 appears to be identical to the land-based variant. Its naval type HHQ-9 is equipped in the PLAN Type 052C Lanzhou class destroyer in VLS launch tubes.
The land-based HQ-9 system has an anti-radiation variant, known as the FT-2000 for export. The export designation for air defense version is FD-2000 (with FD stands for Fang Dun [防盾], meaning defensive shield), and its developer China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC) first made it public at the Africa Aerospace and Defence Exhibition held at Cape Town in March 2009.
The most basic formation of a HQ-9 batteries consisted of one Type 305B search radar, one tracking radar, one 200 kW Diesel generator truck, and eight Transporter erector launchers (TELs) each with 4 missiles, totaling 32 rounds ready to fire. These equipments are usually mounted on Tai'an trucks. This basic formation can be expanded into more capable larger formation, with the addition of the following equipment: one TWS-312 command post, one site survey vehicle based on Chinese Humvee, one main power grid converter, additional transporter / loader vehicles with each vehicle housing four missile TELs based on Tai'an TAS5380, one Type 120 low altitude search radar, one HT-233 PEAS long-range search radar. HQ-9 systems are highly mobile, various units have completed conducting long distance maneuver and drills, including units in southern China participate in live firing exercises in northwestern China.
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