Chinese Air Defence Capabilities

[tharun]

This thread is solely dedicated to discuss about chinese air defence capabilities and their platforms.

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[Tanmay]

Lhasa Gonggar Airbase, Tibet

A SAM site. Please identify model. S300 perhaps

29°17'42.30"N 90°58'8.54"E

 

[Tanmay]

EW Radar Site

29°12'9.91"N 90°39'16.73"E

27°48'49.72"N 91°51'14.17"E

28° 3'17.62"N 91°57'9.73"E

 

[tharun]

So basically China currently has 3 tiers of modern AAMs

Long range:
HQ-9 / HHQ-9 naval versions / FD2000 export version (300+km,41km)
HQ-22 / KS-1 / FK-3 export version (170km,27km)

Low-medium range:
DK-10A / Sky Dragon 50 / PL-12 (50km,20km)
HQ-16 / HHQ-16 naval versions / LY-80 export version (40km,18km)

Low range:
LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10 / PL11 (18km,12km)
HQ-10 / FL3000 (9km,6km)
TY-90


Are there any that I missed out?

 

[tharun]

 

[tharun]

FB-10 Short Range Air defense Missile system: Range-10 km

 

[tharun]

Fk-1000 Short to Medium Range: Range up to 22 km

 

[tharun]

BK1060 35 mm Self Propelled Anti Aircraft Gun

 

[Hari Sud]

All these pieces of hardware are yet to fight a war. None has been used when enemy with equally lethal hardware is shooting back at you. Moreover, it is Chinese copy, mostly unreliable.