China has finalised a $980- million contract with Russia's Rosoboronexport to acquire the Favorit [S-300PMU2] air-defence missile system (ADMS): the first export sale for the system since it became available on the international market in 2001.
The contract includes an 83M6E2 vehicle-mounted command post, eight 90Zh6E2 batteries, one set of 48N6E2 missiles, hardware support tech.
CP include: combat control system 54Ê6Å2; 64N6E2 detection radar (300km, s-band).
Each of 90Zh6E2 batterie include: multifunctional 30N6E2 illumination and guidance radar (x-band), 96L6E all-altitude detection and target designation multiphased array radar; and 8 launchers 5P85SE in Transport-Launch Containers (TLC) with four missiles in each, mounted on MAZ platform (8x8).
Combat control system 54K6E2 also enable control of S-300PMU and S-300PMU-1, which were bought by China earlier. Favorit also could engage targets with 48N6E missiles, used in S-300PMU systems
ADMS Favorit provides:
engagement of aerodynamic targets at ranges of up to 200 km;
engagement of ballistic tagets at ranges of up to 40 km;
engagement of low-flying targets at ranges of up to 28-38 km;
Min/max target altitude, km 0.01/27
Number of simultaneously engaged targets 36
Number of simultaneously guided missiles 72
