HN-6
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Description
HN-6 (红缨-6, HongYing, lit. "a red tassel", but the abbreviation HY was already used by PLAN's HY series ASM) is the secondary weapon that comes with PGZ04A, it is a MANPADS made by CNPMIEC and was exported under the name FN-6 to many countries.
Vehicles equipped with this weapon
General info
HN-6 has a major difference that tells the missile apart from others is the pointy conical shroud that also serves as the cooler for the seeker.
- Mass: 10.7kg
- Mass at end of burn: 7.8/6.5kg
- Width: 72mm
- Length: 1.43m
Effective damage
The missile comes with 0.77 kg TNT equivalent, it causes shrapnel and explosive damage to aircraft.
Comparison with analogues
The Mistral and Type 91 MANPADS are currently the only other 2 land-based and vehicle launched missiles. Performance-wise, HN-6 is very similar to Type 91 in many aspects and it shines over the explosive mass and acceleration. While Mistral shines over HN-6 in basically all aspects- on the other hand, HN-6 is also the only land-based and vehicle launched MANPADS that doesn't come with proximity fuse so it might not be enough to deal with fast-moving and careful jets.
Usage in battles
HN-6, being a MANPADS, it doesn't have the locking range of ADATS and 9M311 found on the infamous Tunguska (at most 7km on rear-aspect); and it might fall short on some aspects to its counterparts in terms of speed and lack of proximity fuse (it used delay fuse instead). Still, it gives players chances to shoot down helicopters or sometimes a careless fixed-wing aircraft; since this MANPADS is currently only available as the secondary weapon of PGZ04A, stay hidden and wait for the chance to fire, to get the best result out of it, players will have to wait until the target has entered the 4.5km all-aspect locking range and fire the missile, if a fixed-wing aircraft is the enemy instead, check its speed before consider firing one- HN-6 really struggles on hitting anything that is supersonic and even if that is not the case, MANPADS at least provides better-than-nothing long-range defense capabilities to players.
Pros and cons
Pros:
- A bit more explosive mass over Type 93 at 0.77kg (over 0.648kg)
Cons:
To be edited
History
Earlier in the 1970s, Viet Cong has provided some complete Strela-2M to Mainland China, asking them to manufacture supplements to this exact type of MANPADS- HN-5 (红缨-5), but due to newer counter-measurements from USAF has already been proved effective to Strela-2M and its Chinese reverse-engineered copy, as well as the worsening Sino-Vietnam relationship, HN-5 wasn't effective enough until Chinese got their hands on some Igla-1 from Angola Civil War and made HN-5B from that in the 1980s; which has became the starting point of Chinese domestic MANPADS.
After around 20 years, in the mid-2000s, a new type of MANPADS was developed and put into service albeit the exact year and the development history were still unclear. The new HN-6 (红缨-6, exported as 飞弩[lit. flying crossbow]FN-6), first revealed at the 60th Anniversary of PRC Establishment parade as the suspended missile on PGZ04A, was first shown in combat in Free Syria Army's (FSA) video in February 2013, where a soldier from FSA used one at the city of Deir ez-Zor; and later that month, it has its very first recorded kill on a Syrian Army Mi-8 at the outskirt of Aleppo; during that year, it has recorded 2 helicopter kills and even a MiG-21MF kill on August; as well as ISIL in 2014, where they had 2 recorded kills on Iraqi helicopters. Making FN-6 a "star" among the exported Chinese weapons.
Media
See also
Type 91-its Japanese competitor
Mistral SATCP- its French and European competitor
External links
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- topic on the official game forum;
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