HQ-61
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The HQ-6, also known as LY-60 (NATO reporting name: CH-SA-6), is a family of Chinese air defense missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), a subsidery of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The missile is largely based on the Chinese PL-11 and Italian Selenia (now as Leonardo S.p.A.) Aspide missile.
Key facts
- Weapon.is_missile
- yes
- Weapon.name
- HQ-6
- Weapon.image
- HQ-6A Surface-to-air missiles 20170716.jpg
- Weapon.caption
- HQ-6A Surface-to-air missiles mounted with road-mobile launcher
- Weapon.origin
- China
- Weapon.type
- air-to-air & surface-to-air missiles
- Weapon.used_by
- Primary user: China See Operators section for others
- Weapon.manufacturer
- Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology
- Weapon.propellant
- solid fuel
- Weapon.production_date
- since late 1980s
- Weapon.service
- late 1980s – present
- Weapon.engine
- rocket motor
- Weapon.weight
- 220 kg
- Weapon.length
- 3.69 meter
- Weapon.diameter
- 203 mm
- Weapon.speed
- Mach 3
- Weapon.vehicle_range
- 18 km for SAM, 60 km for AAM
- Weapon.filling
- 33 kg warhead
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Development
- Variants
- PL-11
- HQ-61
- LY-60
- YJ-5
- HQ-64
- HQ-6A
- Operators
- Current operators
- Former operators
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
The HQ-6, also known as LY-60 (NATO reporting name: CH-SA-6), is a family of Chinese air defense missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), a subsidery of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The missile is largely based on the Chinese PL-11 and Italian Selenia (now as Leonardo S.p.A.) Aspide missile.
==Development== HQ-6 is a surface-to-air missile system developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, incorporating technologies from PL-11 missile. PL-11 is the license-produced version of Aspide missile, which itself is based on the American AIM-7 Sparrow missile. It was speculated the missile is a copy of AIM-7 when the system was revealed in the late 1970s, though HQ-6 is considerably larger than the AIM-7 Sparrow. HQ-6 missile went through multiple iterations, and an export variant named LY-60 was also developed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HQ-61” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.