I honestly don't get it why PN went with HHQ-16 , when an alternative in the form of DK-10 (now renamed to sd10a(not to be mixed with AAM) for some reason)
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It's chinese equivalent of ESSM, CAMM-ER which PN will use on pretty much all it's western origin ships,
It's basically ground launched pl12, and share the same technology which is far superior to the solution present on hhq16.
It can be quad packed and has an beefed up version called sd-30 , if baseline dk10 goes to 50+km this one might outrange it.
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@Bilal Khan (Quwa), can you shed some light on it, has PN cconsidered it? Or maybe plans to adopt them in the future.
One argument against it can be it's not widely used in PLAN and kind of an unknown type, but land version of this sam has already been exported to MOROCCO and RAWANDA.
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