OVERVIEW:  The LY-80 is a road-mobile, medium-range vertically launched surface-to-air missile (SAM) using a Semi-active homing seeker.

DETAILS:     The LY-80 is designed to provide mid-tier air defense against aircraft, UAVs, cruise missiles, and short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.  It is intended to fill the gap between the short-range HQ-7 and the long-range HQ-9 systems, particularly against low-flying targets such as cruise missiles.

The LY-80 division consists of a division combat control station (C2), detection radar and three fire batteries. Each LY-80 battery consists of four 6-cell launcher vehicles and a fire control radar. 

   An engagement begins with the detection of a target by the search radar vehicle consisting of a 76 nm range, mast-mounted IBIS 150 3-D PESA (E/F band (NATO), S-band IEEE) radar. This radar can detect up to 144 targets and track 48 simultaneously.  After tracking and designating the target(s) hostile, the tracking radar passes them off to the battery's L-band PESA target illumination radar for missile launching and illumination.   This radar has a range of 46 nm and can detect up to 6 targets, track 4 simultaneously and provide fire control for 8 missiles.


Specifications:

Maximum Acquisition Range: 	 76 nm (140 km)
Maximum Tracking Range:		46 nm (85 km)(fighter-sized target)
Engagement Envelope, range:	 1-22 nm;  1.5-40 km (est)  
Engagement Envelope, altitude:	 33-19675 ft; 10-6000 m
Max target speed: 		 1333 knots (Mach 2)
Kill probability:		 0.85 (aircraft); 0.60 (cruise missiles) (single shot)
Reload time:			 ??? minutes 
Reaction Time			8 seconds
Mobility:			road mobile
Set Up Time:			12 minutes

NOTES:  IOC 2011 (HQ-16), 2017 (est) for the LY-80. The LY-80 is the export version of the HQ-16 missile, which in turn is based on the Russian 9M38 missile used by the Buk-M1 and Buk-M2 ground-based air defense systems.
  

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