LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10 - HQ-6

HQ-6

HQ-6 is the second member of LY-60/PL-10/HQ-6/6D/64/DK-10 developed, but it entered service before the air-to-air version PL-10, despite the start of the latter is earlier than HQ-6. The entire SAM system is consisted of four truck mounted radars (one search/surveillance radar and three tracking/fire control radars), one power supply truck, and six truck mounted Transporter / Erector / Launcher (TEL)s. The missile itself is directly coming from the air-to-air version PL-11. Unlike the Italian Aspide which utilizes containers as launchers, HQ-6 utilizes missile launching rails (MLR) instead, and each truck mounted launcher has two MLRs/missiles. Specifications:

  • Length: 3.99 m
  • Diameter: 286 mm
  • Wingspan: 1 m
  • Weight: 300 kg
  • Speed: Mach 3
  • Maximum Flight Speed: 600 meters per second
  • Maximum maneuvering overload: 35 g
  • Maximum maneuvering overload : 7 g
  • Range
    • Normal: 30 meters - 10000 meters
    • Slant: 10 meters - 8000 meters

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