LY-60
The LY-60 (Lie Ying, "Falcon") is a surface-to-air missile system deployed by the People's Liberation Army. It entered service among air defense units beginning in 1994 and was unveiled by the Chinese Precision Machinery Import-Export Company or CPMIEC at the International Weapons Systems Exhibition, "Defendory' 94," held in Piraeus, Greece in October 1994. Capable of intercepting air targets at medium and low altitudes, it supports advanced command and control features not found in any of its Western contemporaries.
A LY-60 battery consists of a surveillance radar, three tracking/illumination radars, six Transporter / Erector / Launcher (TEL)s, and support equipment mounted on trucks. Between these systems, it can detect 40, track 12 and engage 3. Incorporating the moving target tracking processing system as well as frequency agility technology gives the missile system excellent capability in an electronic warfare environment.1
The LY-60 uses semi-active radar homing with a single shot kill probability of between 60 - 70%. The missile has two pairs of fully movable front wings and four fixed tail fins with a wingspan of 680 millimeters. The wings and fins aerodynamic placement are in a X-X pattern.
The LY-60 missile consist of 4 major modules in the following order: homing, warhead, control and engine. The homing module consist of the cowling for antenna, homing system, fuse and power supply. The warhead consist of the 33 kg warhead with prefabricated shell fragments in the form of steel balls, arming circuit and safety. The control module consist of the autopilot, hydraulic system, servo system, frequency mixer for the homing module, the four movable wings, dropout plug and the forward suspension device. The engine module consist of the solid state rocket motor, four fixed tail fins, ignition plug and rear suspension device. Specifications:
- Length: 3.69 m
- Diameter: 203 mm
- Wingspan: 1 m
- Weight: 220 kg
- Warhead 33 kg
- Speed: Mach 3
- Maximum Flight Speed: 600 meters per second
- Maximum maneuvering overload: 35 g
- Maximum maneuvering overload : 7 g
- Range(PL-10) AA : PL-11 60 km
- Range (LY-60)
- Normal: 30 meters - 12000 meters
- Slant: 10 meters - 18000 meters
- Guidance Semi-Active Radar Homing
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