HQ9B HT233 Aesa radar, type 780 radar
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PLA Anti-Air Missile (SAM) systems
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Ignore the text in Chinese saying that it is long range rocket — this is Hq-16.
So that means the PLAN warships got their own PAC3 MSE-counterparts before the USN does?
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Quadpacked on UVLS? how?
What do you mean "how"?
The UVLS is a modular system that is designed from the outset to be able to pack more than one payload in a cell.
A multipack approach (whether quadpack or dualpack or otherwise) can use either a cold launch approach (separate cold launch mechanism for each individual payload) or a hot launch approach which would be some variation of having a concentric venting system like the UVLS launch of YJ-18.
For both approaches, each individual payload in the multipacked cell will sit in its own housing/subcanister.
Without boosters, it can be quadpacked; with boosters, it can only be dualpacked.
Currently, we haven't seen a navy version without boosters. But let's just say dualpack is also a multipack, right?
Comparing a dualpacked system to ESSM is a bit odd given the latter is quadpacked, but then again considering how few operational SAMs there are which are multipacked to begin with, I think we can sort of let it slide.
At minimum it can be established even more firmly that we know at minimum HHQ-9C can be dualpacked in UVLS (even though I think they strongly hinted it last September as well). And for what looks like a fairly capable two stage SAM, with an airframe profile that may have increased augmentation for ballistic missile defense tasking relative to prior HQ-9 variants, that is a meaningful capability uplift.
At minimum it can be established even more firmly that we know at minimum HHQ-9C can be dualpacked in UVLS (even though I think they strongly hinted it last September as well). And for what looks like a fairly capable two stage SAM, with an airframe profile that may have increased augmentation for ballistic missile defense tasking relative to prior HQ-9 variants, that is a meaningful capability uplift.
I mean they did also say "They wanted both ESSM and the legendary quadpacked Patriot 3". So either they meant the booster can be somehow quadpacked or HHQ-19C is similar in performance even without the booster.