i disagree with the rest of your post, but I do agree with this to an extent.
The HQ-17 has an AESA AND PESA radar, it would be too strong to add now, although there are plenty of other SPAAs china could get
Since when did he HQ17 have a 40km missile.
It might have, TOR was much longer range than it is in game with 9M338, around 18, whilst that was around 2000 stuff… I’m sure about 2016 stuff can improve the range by this margin.
Tor only have 2 missile to my knowledge. 12km and 15km missiles.
Depends on sources, the highest estimation is 18, so I took that, I really think Gaijing should consider the highest possible value to make it fair to all.
I don’t know what sources you using but every source or article(I’ve seen) on HQ17 missiles state it has 15km range.
I said TOR, so not HQ17, I mean what sources are you using?
Would be interested I am very likely wrong cause I was referring to operational range, aka not actual range.
hahaha, yeah no…
The more I think about it the more I’m confused, how is the adats not better than the tor? Aside from a like 2km range advantage it’s worse in basically every other way.
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I’ve used the TOR and not the Adats, but I think it might just be a skill issue. The TOR is simply more difficult to use straight away, but I find it quite effective.
Am I missing something? In my experience if you use the track radar you’re basically guaranteed to miss so I’ve been hand tracking them and it’s just not effective, there’s also irst but it doesn’t work on cloudy maps. What do you do to make it effective?
Enemies know how to make the auto track miss, hand tracking is not efficient. Your best option is to use the auto-lead and adjust the missile based on your point of view. Of course, enemy aircraft can fly low and force you to miss regardless but they can do that with any missile system including the Pantsir S1.
The main thing that makes the TOR so good is that the radar keeps you situationally aware. There are times I feel the radar gives me more information than the one on my Pantsir, albeit with less angles.
Just hide, spawn in the TOR to deal with helicopters, drones, etc. If you need to deal with enemy fighters it is all too easy to spawn in any of their helicopters and start slinging TY-90’s at them. That is much more effective than any SPAA and you have the ability to destroy ground targets afterwards.
You would be surprised, rofl.
As for as Im aware Tor and HQ17 use the same set of missiles. Of course each use their own produced missiles so their names are different but their capabilities are equal.
there is large improvement in HQ-17A, HQ-17 might improved a little.
HQ-17A’s information is still classified, the 40km range is from another missile with similar size and structure, but for ship.
HQ-17 could be 15-20km from some source, HQ-17A 20+km
Would you mind sharing this information on a 40km missile for HQ17.
As the author of SPAA Mega List, I would like to keep missile specs up to date. But I stated in earlier post, I have yet to see a shread of evidence for a 40km missile for either Tor or HQ17,
Tor Missiles:
9M331 (In-Game)
- Range: 12 km
- Caliber: 239mm
- Launch Mass: 167 kg
- Max Speed: Mach 2.49 (850 m/s)
- Guidance Type: SACLOS
- Max Overload: 42 G
- Guidance Time: 21s
- TNT equivalent: 8.16
- Missile Amount: 8x
9M338
- Range: 15 km
- Caliber: 200mm
- Launch Mass: n/a
- Max Speed: Mach 3 (1,029 m/s)
- Guidance Type: SACLOS
- Max Overload: n/a
- Guidance Time: n/a
- Warhead: n/a
- Missile Amount: 16x
HQ17 Missiles:
HQ-17
- Range: 15 km
- Caliber: 230mm
- Launch Mass: 165 kg
- Max Speed: Mach 3 (1,029 m/s)
- Guidance Type: SARH
- Max Overload: n/a
- Guidance Time: n/a
- Warhead: 15 kg
- Missile Amount: 8x
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I can only provide this, FM-3000N with 45km range(40km is from my bad memory). HQ-17A improved mobility from some official report, seems uses TVC or side thrust, it can do 180° turn in extremely small radius.
FM-2000 is export version of HQ-17(HQ-17AE is export version of HQ-17A). FM-3000 is the newest version of it’s series, but the missile could be a little longer, I haven’t done a pixel count yet. PLA service version FM-3000 is HQ-11.
FM-2000 15KM
FM-3000
HQ-11
Compared to FM-3000, HQ-11 uses a larger truck so it has radar and missiles in one vehicle.
Other information is from some articles or rumors, which is not so reliable.
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Unless the FM-3000 is backwards compatible with HQ17 then why are people saying the HQ17 can reach 40km when it seems to be an entirely new vehicle with a new missile?
No information so they find a closest one? we may get a HQ-17AE display board in this year’s Zhuhai Airshow.
They do have relationship, all developed from 9M331, with almost same structure, I think it can be a reference, the main problem is if FM-3000 is larger/longer, it determines how much propellant it can carry. I can do some pixel count when I get to my computer with Photoshop.
You don’t have to go to the lengths of pixel measurements.
I was just trying to understand why people are saying Tor and HQ17 had 40km range.