The recent Indian air raid in Pakistani Kashmir’s Balakot area mobilized the leadership of the country’s Armed Forces, which decided to deploy Chinese anti-aircraft systems on the Pakistani-Indian border.
More specifically, a number of the Chinese HQ-16 anti-aircraft system (or LY-80 as it is also known) have been deployed by Pakistan on border military bases to protect against possible Indian air raids.
The HQ-16 system is self-propelled and acquired from Pakistan in 2017. Pakistan has only 5 systems consisting of the IBIS-150 3D search radar which can detect targets at a distance of 150 km and an altitude of 20 km by three control centers and three 85-kilometer tracking radars and 12 truck launchers with 6 vertical rocket launchers each.
