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CASIC unveils its new FK-1000 short/medium range air defense system at AirShow China 2016 10511162.
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AirShow China 2016
Online Show Daily News Aviation & Aerospace Defence Exhibition 1 - 6 November 2016 Zhuhai , China |
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FK-1000 at AirShow China 2016
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During Zhuhai AirShow China 2016, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation's (CASIC's) unveils its new short/medium range air defense system FK-1000. In 2012, a scale model of the vehicle was presented at AirShow China.
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 The new Chinese-made FK-1000 short/medium range air defense system at Zhuhai AirShow China 2016. |
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The FK-1000 is an surface-to-air missile weapon system with high operational performance which can be used in all-weather conditions against medium-to-low altitude and medium-to-short range aerial targets.
The FK-1000 is able to intercept various offensive air weapons such as cruise missile, armed helicopters, air-to-surface missiles and fixed wing aircraft. The whole air defense system is mounted on a 8x8 tactical truck chassis. The weapons turret is mounted at the rear of the truck chassis with a command and control cabin at the rear of the crew cabin truck. The FK-1000 fire control system includes one target acquisition radar mounted at the rear of the turret and one tracking radar at the front. The FK-1000 is armed with two 23mm cannons, one each side of the turret, coupled with twelve KS-1000 surface-to-air missiles launchers, six on each side of the turret.The FK-1000 can hit targets from a range of 1.2 to 22 km to an altitude from 50 m to 10 km. The FK-1000 seems to be very similar to the Russian-made Pantsir S-1. |
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 Close view of the FK-1000 with the 23mm automatic cannon and the six canisters of surface-to-air missiles mounted on each side of the turret. |