Laos Shows off Modern Chinese Air Defense Missile System

27 Desember 2018

Yitian SHORAD of the Laos Army (photo : DatViet)

Recently, the Lao People's Army has begun its extensive modernization through the purchase of a new generation of weapons and equipment originating from many different countries. 

In addition to Russian-made weapons such as the Yak-130 trainer, T-72B "White Eagle" tank, the proportion of Chinese weapons in the Lao Army is also increasing.

In fact, since the Lao special forces soldiers marched with carbine QBZ-97B, this changing trend has also been mentioned, followed by "surprise" to reveal CS/SH1 self-propelled self-propelled guns.

And most surprisingly, recently in the parade preparation for the 70th day of the army's establishment, the Yitian low-range air defense missile complex (Tianlong 6) appeared.

The Yitian anti-aircraft missile complex consists of a combat module mounted on a 6x6 WZ-551 armored vehicle chassis built by Northern Defense Industry Group - NORINCO of China. 

The system is equipped with 8 Tianlong 6 short-range surface-to-air missiles, which is a modified version of the air-to-air missile TY-90 (Sky Swallow-90) with an effective range of 300-6,000m, high combat operation 4,000 m.

Yitian SHORAD missile weapon system (photo : Norinco)


The shooting for the TY-90 is a fairly passive, multi-phase array array radar placed on the top of the operational module, on the armored WZ-551 chassis still retaining a heavy 12.7 mm machine gun to in charge of protecting the crew in front of infantry soldiers.

The Chinese-made Yitian low-range anti-aircraft missile complexes are rated to be more technically superior to the existing Strela-10 in the military service in both the range and accuracy of radar.

In the future, however, the Lao People's Army will not eliminate the Strela-10 that uses it in parallel with Yitian, which will be the two vehicles that play the role of protecting the lineup of armored units.

The strong investment by the Lao Army in the anti-army air defense is a perfectly reasonable policy, when recently they received the T-72B White Eagle tank and left the possibility of buying more vehicles. other modern world.

(BaoDatViet)