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AirShow China 2018: CASIC FK-1000 air defense system highlighted.
The FK-1000 air defense system produced by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation's (CASIC) is once again being highlighted at this year's AirShow China aerospace and defense exhibition, held from 6-11 November in Zhuhai.
The FK-1000 air defense missile system at AirShow China 2018
(Picture source Army Recognition)
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.
