Chinese crotale

But it at least have a radar which should be similar to the one of ITOM 90 since that is also a crotale radar, but perhaps upgraded. The ITOM90 also locks with the radar, which should be similar to PGZ09’s radar lock since I have barely used ITOM 90.

This is only a tracking radar not search radar. I believe you misunderstood armenlozone’s comment.

this is a bangladeshi FM-90 battery
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the search and track radars are on seperate vehicles afaik

Btw we have 2 different FM90s. The one you shared is for Airforce and the one I shared is for army.
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Probably, but I was saying it does not have to be towed to have a radar to track. I think it should be ok at 10.3 or sth.

the only way to have both search and track radars on the “same vehicle” would be something like this:
to have the towed vehicle towed by the radar vehicle

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alternative is to have 8 launchers like this:

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the chassis seems different on the army version…

He never said he wants search radar for tracking. Search radar is really a big deal in top tier battles. This thing has way too long range missiles for 10.3 but it will also suffer at higher BR than 10.3 because of the lack of search radar.

same as the Pakistani one.

Missiles might be different since it has different canister.

I understand now. The Strela is suffering as well so I think I’m fine. :)

this is called HQ-7A by tank-afv.com

and this is called HQ-7B (improvement of 7A)

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Chinese one is like the mix of both. So it’s really hard to say which one is what variant.

eh?
how is it a mix?

Telar vehicle from HQ-7A and new canister from HQ-7B

canister seems the same on both models to me lol, my eyes be letting me down

Canister shape probably doesn’t mean anything 😁

Every missile fired from every HQ-7 variant looks same to me.

i recently found out that pakistan has both the original Crotale from France and the Chinese FM-90. the crotale is the old version but the FM-90 is the new and improved one with around 20km range (although tbh i couldve mistook radar range for missile range but its unlikely)

Pakistani crotale

Pakistani FM-90
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