Army Chief witnessed firing of FM -90 air defence missile sys

[khanasifm]

fm-90 did not added anything new in force . we just replaced our crotales with copy of crotal .simple we need hq-9

Nothing do with crotale as Croatal is with airforce for BAse protection while Fm-90 is now new addition with army air defense so totally different role it added far more capability compare to what army air defense had in the past

Able
To engage heli borne threats well beyond their weapons range of 7-8 km like hellfire from apache which is not possible with shouldered fires sams

http://www.military-today.com/missiles/hq_7b.htm


The missile is 3 m long and weight 84.5 kg. It has a solid fuel rocket motor. It gives the missile a maximum speed of 900 m/s and a range of 15 km. It can engage helicopters, aircraft, cruise missiles, air-to-ground missiles and anti-radiation missiles at a range of up to 15 km. Minimum range of fire is 700 m. Maximum altitude is 6 000 m. Missile has a 15 kg High-Explosive Fragmentation (HE-FRAG) warhead with contact and proximity fuses. It is claimed that a hit probability with a single shot is more than 85%.


It is fitted with an S-band Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) antenna. It can detect up to 48 targets and track up to 24 targets simultaneously. Maximum detection range is 25 km. Maximum tracking range is 20 km.