Military of China, force comment.
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China-made air defense missile systems, launch vehicles Heaven
eight-mounted anti-aircraft missile launchers pointing
Heavenly Sword air defense missile systems use infrared look for TY-90 air defense missile weapons

Rui Hao first knowledge 2009.05A

Ninth International Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi, China’s “Heavenly Sword” short-range air defense missile system missile launchers for the first time to participate in physical Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi to attract multi-national military and the media attention.

origin of the name

“Heavenly Sword” – the name of the people listening to the shock. Heavenly Sword has existed since ancient sword, not Guo Jing, Huang Rong created by. Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao is the name of Heaven Sword of wear, from the Song of the mass of the “big words Fu” in the famous “Come lean on long days pulling sword” and named. Heavenly Sword very sharp blade, a sword of the generation after that. Generation poet Li Bai, also of the endless admiration, “Riverside King Day Shi Song,” and had “Andhra Heavenly Sword, a long cut across the sea whale,” the sentence.

with “Heaven” to name the new-made air defense missile system, the full performance of the “Heavenly Sword” Sword sky air defense missile system to destroy all the invading enemy of pride, but also showed an awareness of R & D team and innovative spirit of scientific research.

combat missions

“Heavenly Sword” air defense missile weapon system is based on TY-90 IR homing missiles, short-range missile air defense system on their own. Weapons systems with high mobility, electronic warfare capability, firepower-intensive, flexible operational command, operation and maintenance simple and cost-efficient and other major features. Weapons systems against various types of hollow, low-altitude, low altitude targets such as fixed-wing combat aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, air defense can be used to complete the field, to air defense, air defense and maneuver had laid an ambush along with combat missions.

System Configuration

“Heavenly Sword” air defense missile weapon system operating modes are the main mode of independent tanks, battle mode from the owner, and even command mode and the battalion command mode. The weapon system configuration consists of a battalion battalion command vehicle, three missile components. Even by the one-class configuration with command vehicle, six tanks, two for the car bomb, a missile test and maintenance vehicle, a vehicle composed of mechanical and electrical maintenance.

battalion command vehicle was “Heavenly Sword” air defense missile system information command center, the higher the integration, neighbors, local intelligence and reporting space for even the command vehicle and the car provides air situation and combat instruction, collaborative operational process.

even the command vehicle to receive air situation battalion command vehicles and command command, assigned to the tanks, indicating the target, the implementation of operational command. Tank to receive even the command vehicle’s air situation information and operational chain of command, to accomplish a combat mission. Tanks can be independent operations, but also in the establishment of coordination.

“Heavenly Sword” chariot

wheeled armored vehicles, weapons systems, the use of loaded tanks, equipped with 8 TY-90 infrared homing air defense missiles, missile launchers, three-coordinate target indication radar, optical tracking device, turrets, control units, communications equipment, location and orientation devices, intercom devices, power supply unit and so on.

TY-90 air defense missiles and by the seeker, fuze components, warhead, engine, flight control system. Missile with canard + rotary wing aerodynamics, anti-turbulence ability. Infrared passive homing, multi-detection, infrared radiation of low target detection distance. Automatically intercept the missile, tracking the target, after launching. Pre-launch targeted, can be off-axis emission.

missiles and tactical performance indicators for the destruction from 500-6000 meters, shot high 15-4000 meters to attack head-on target maximum speed of 400 m/s, the maximum flight speed of Mach 2.2, a single shot kill probability 80%.

coordinate target indication radar using solid state active phased array antenna technology using low radiation power and frequency agility techniques. Radar system has a low probability of intercept (LPI), which makes the other side of the electronic surveillance equipment is difficult to detect and correct estimation of the radar transmitted signal, can not use anti-radiation missile (ARM) to attack the radar. Technology using frequency agility, pulse compression technology, narrow beam and low sidelobe technology against active interference.

use of moving target detection (MTD), can inhibit the passive interference, ground clutter and weather clutter. The use of T/R components solid state transmitter, high reliability and low maintenance costs. Coordinate target indicator radar target detection range of 18 km. Automatic output target distance, azimuth and elevation, intercepted the target to guide optical tracking device, may also be guided TY-90 air defense missile intercepted the target seeker.

optical tracking device from the television/infrared trackers and laser rangefinder components. Detection distance of 12 km, 10 km from the track.

“Heavenly Sword” air defense missile system for the 6×6 chassis, all-wheel drive vehicles, and other high-wheelbase of the amphibious off-road vehicles. The car has air-cooled supercharged engine, 9 1 down before the transmission, the central charge and discharge the gas system, adjustable pneumatic safety tires, and the former, the two-axle steering, which has a high mobility vehicle, and driving through the stable sex.

body is fully enclosed, bottom smooth, body armor steel plate used, there is a degree of protection. Vehicle body is fixed and all the mechanical parts of various institutions of the bearing, there is sufficient stiffness and strength.

points the entire vehicle cab, the engine room and the battle room of three parts. In the engine room to the right of the cab and fighting room to connect the channel. The right side of the channel side door, get on and off for the crew to use.

cab in front of the sedan. Installed in the vehicle control mechanism, observation instruments, instrumentation, vehicle length and the driver’s seat and three anti-fire control boxes.

powerhouse left in the middle of the body close to the cab, the interior fitted with engine, gearbox, drive shaft and the oil cooling system. And into the engine intake and exhaust ventilation devices. Engine room fire extinguishing system still receptors, nozzles and fire fighting piping and other devices. Powerhouse with partitions and other parts of the body are separated, to check the engine room parts, removable partitions, and the first, the bridge between the wheel wells, under the armor plate to open the left door with checks.

fighting compartment in the engine room, the turret mounted on the front of the fighting compartment, side of the vehicle equipped with a booster fan and the canister, the rear space of about a volume of 200 liters each diesel tank in the rear deck for the crew opened the back door on and off.

room in the cab floor and fighting with the car at the end of the deck between the various transmission parts, including the bridge, drive shafts, steering and braking system of the truss build cylinders, various valves, pipes Road, steering and other devices.

car action, including suspension parts, wheel gear, wheels and steering bar system. Front of the car with the vehicle lights. Rear left and right sides, respectively, with the dome with water propeller propulsion.

vehicles on land and water turn by turning the steering wheel control. Shift is the manipulation of land before the bridge wheel steering, water turned to the operating water propeller rotation.

installed inside the armored vehicle with air-conditioning systems (one for two structures), to improve the vehicle’s internal human environment.

overall evaluation

ability to focus on anti-air defense weapons on the missile’s performance. TY-90 air defense missile uses a multi-refrigeration InSb infrared seeker, and the application of digital processing chip to detect not only improve the seeker sensitivity, and IR decoy also has a strong background to distinguish surface features capacity. TY-90 air defense missiles, anti-distance, high-precision guidance, ability damage, single hit probability is high, and the international market compared to advanced air defense missiles, no less.

Modern War anti-radiation missile (ARM) on the radar of a severe battlefield survivability test, the low probability of intercept radar systems (LPI) performance has been more and more attention. “Heavenly Sword” chariot of the radar system also has a good low probability of intercept. Tanks using radar, television, infrared and laser target detection and other detection means, so that tanks have the ability to work around the clock, is the international mainstream of advanced air defense weapon system design trends.

“Heavenly Sword” air defense missile systems are used all the wheeled armored combat vehicles, chassis, has good mobility and cross-country, but also reduces the cost of the chassis to maintain security. Modular design, set cars on adaptability, in accordance with user needs, migrate to other types of chassis.

short, compared with the same weapons systems, “Heavenly Sword” short-range air defense missile system has the following seven technical characteristics. First, with the anti-distance, high-precision guidance, ability damage, single hit probability is high, firepower-intensive features. Second, an independent combat capability. Not only in the command vehicle tanks under the command of combat, you can also cycle independent operations, the Ministry of tanks can be independently single target search, intercept, tracking and shooting. Third, the road between the ability to work with. Tanks can achieve the goal of moving the search to complete the optical tracker, to track the target missile. Fourth, with a strong resistance to electronic interference. Missile uses multiple infrared detectors, the optical system uses the missile highly reflective aspheric mirror, so the infrared seeker in the anti-jamming and decoy has a higher background interference features in the performance. Fifth, the multi-target attack capability. With off-axis intercept missiles, launched off-axis capability, can attack several groups of target. Sixth, good mobility, and a smooth ride through nature. Wheeled armored vehicle chassis with independent suspension dual horizontal wall, between the bridge and wheel differential lock, adjustable tire pressure bullet-proof, water propulsion, and the former, the two bridges steering, 6×6 drive, ensure that the chassis has high mobility, and a smooth ride through nature. Seventh, with good portability. Modular design, set cars on adaptability, in accordance with user needs, migrate to other types of chassis.

While the global economy are being affected by the financial crisis, but the 2009 Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi does not shrink the size, indicating that the prosperity of the global defense market, on the other hand we see the defense market competition.

at the show, there are many different companies exhibited some features similar weapons systems, such as anti-aircraft missiles, long-range rockets and a variety of armored vehicles. Our design philosophy is very similar, for example, air defense radar and weapons systems, optical systems are used to discover, track, target, using a variety of missiles or artillery to attack the target, but there are details in the relatively large difference, resulting in the formation their own style.

details of European and American countries a good deal of weapons, from the near surface observation can feel more sophisticated, human-machine interface and a variety of operating handle, the button design of human nature, the operation very convenient. European and American products, rehabilitation products and sometimes the shape of the design, for example, in some only a flat structure to meet the requirements of the place, the use of curved panels, the visual effect is more beautiful.

The Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi is the first time with a real North Industries Corporation exhibitors, and exhibition of large scale, UAE local media reported that China’s increased promotion in the Middle East intensity, which shows our products in the Middle East affect larger. China has independently developed the “Heavenly Sword” air defense missile systems and other well-known arms supplier product compares favorably with its own characteristics and advantages, the exhibition attracted a multi-national military and the media to come to counseling, I believe broad market prospects.

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