HQ-11


HQ-11, export designation FM-3000, is a mobile short-to-medium range combined air defense missile and gun system designed for terminal air defense. Designated as the "universal terminal defence system" in Zhuhai Airshow 2022. The export version, FM-3000, was unveiled by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation in 2014.

Description

The HQ-11 terminal defense system consists of a missile launcher vehicle, LD-3000 close-in weapon system and a radar surveillance vehicle. The carrier vehicle of the missile launcher is an 8×8 wheeled transporter erector launcher, which is fitted with eight square canisters as vertical launch cells.
The engagement range is against aircraft and against missiles. Each air defense battery has a rotating rotary phased-array radar and four launch vehicles and can handle 32 different targets simultaneously. Guidance system for the missile included inertial guidance, command guidance, and terminal active radar homing.
The HQ-11 is meant to replace HQ-6A air defense system with better target engagement capability, as the latter is not armed for increased threats from missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles on the battlefield. The HQ-6A system has three vehicles: a canted 4-cell launcher vehicle with HQ-6D missiles, a close-in weapon system vehicle with a 6-barrel LD-2000 anti-air gun, and a search vehicle with mechanical radars. The HQ-11 system reduced the formation to two vehicles; the primary vehicle combines a more responsive 8-cell vertical launch system with onboard active electronically scanned array radar and air surveillance control room, and the secondary vehicle is equipped with an 11-barrel LD-3000 CIWS gun. Both components of the HQ-11 is mounted on the Taian 5450B chassis.

Variants

;HQ-11: Domestic version, combining eight vertical-launched FM-3000 missiles with LD-3000 CIWS.
;FM-3000: Export version, first unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow 2014.
;FM-3000N: Navalized export version, first unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow 2014. Can be quad-packed in the Chinese naval vertical launch system cell.