I feel like Pakistan is better off investing in more maneuverable missiles for point defense capabilities against low flying missiles and drones. They are more economical and will probably address the threat from India better.
PLA Anti-Air Missile (SAM) systems
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More maneuverable as in? HQ17? Yitian? Anyway, drones and some of the new missile can be cheap and can be costly for defenders to shoot every threat down using missile.
That's precisely why Pakistan targets only high-value drones like the Heron, while using small arms to shoot down low-intensity killer drones that India uses to create chaos.
HQ-13 should just be the missile (i.e. FB-10A). The combined gun/missile vehicle is apparently called LD-35L/SWS3.
My understanding is that both missile vehicle and combined vehicle (as well as their TAR radar) operate within same units, maybe role-divided within battery(like Buk unit halves: TELARs, TELs+TARs).
Seems like another user on this forum (plus a post on CDF and Twitter) have also noted several other unknown SAMs/ABMs seem in satellite images. The one that you posted has the rumored designation "HQ-26" attached to it, although I have no idea where that came from.
See here:
Any idea on what the other ones could be?
If the SAM that you observed have been around for a couple of years, chances are that it might make an appearance in their September parade.
Now, we all have to wait for 3rd September parade. Probably it might make an appearance.
Anyone have a rundown of which systems are thought to have capability against ICBM velocity targets?
Most likely DN-3.
HQ-19 should have mid-course intercept capability. In fact, it is equivalent to THAAD-ER, not just THAAD.
but more reliable choices are HQ-29(or HQ-26) and DN-3