08-05-2025
All about Pak air defence system destroyed by India
Indian forces destroyed an air defence system deployed at a Pakistani military base in Lahore in response to Pakistan's attempts to engage various Indian military sites last night. Open-source data analysis shows the system could be China-origin government says Indian forces struck several sites in Pakistan by using drones and missiles on Thursday. In the wee hours of Wednesday, Indian forces hit nine terrorist sites in Pakistan to avenge the killing of 26 tourists in a terrorist attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam a fortnight ago.
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advertisementHQ-16, the export variant of China's LY-80 medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM), was acquired by Pakistan in two separate orders between 2013 and 2015, as per the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) arms transfers' database.
The purchase was made for USD 599 million, which translates to USD 66.56 million for each unit. Going by today's currency exchange, that would mean Pakistan spent around PKR 1872.5 crore on each per Pakistan armed forces' magazine Hilal, HQ-16 provides low-to medium-altitude defence. It has a range of around 40 km. The HQ-16 missile can hit targets at an altitude from 400 to 10,000 Army formally inducted the HQ-16 in 2017 and performed its first live firing in January 2018.
Data source: ODIN (Operational Environment Data Integration Network)
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The HQ-16 is mainly used to protect stationary assets such as airfields, bridges, command posts, concentrations of troops, and other high-value say the battalion of the HQ-16 consists of twelve launcher vehicles (four in each battery), a command and control vehicle, three tracking and guidance radar vehicles, a target searching radar vehicle, and several missile transport and reloading vehicles, and power supply defence system was first introduced in the Chinese armed forces in September per US military's Operational Environment Data Integration Network (ODIN), the HQ-16 can be operated in a strong electromagnetic interference environment and in all weather In
