This case has been solved. The Indian BrahMos supersonic missile hit the Pakistani Air Force base. This incident has nothing to do with the HQ-9 air defense missile at all.
Because the Shahbaz base in Pakistan, which was hit by the Pakistani Air Force, is a deployment base for US-made F-16 fighters. The US military requires that the Pakistani army cannot deploy HQ-9B and HQ-16 air defense missile systems near the US F-16 fighter bases.
In order to avoid the HQ-16 electronic detection system discovering the electromagnetic and radar signal data of the F-16 fighters. Therefore, Pakistan's only nine sets of HQ-9B air defense missile systems and HQ-16 air defense missile systems are deployed in major cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, naval bases, and J-10 bases.
The strike on the Pakistani Shahbaz base by the Indian BrahMos supersonic missile is entirely due to the poor performance of the US-made Hawk air defense missiles and has nothing to do with the HQ system.
However, this battle still exposed the problem of Pakistan's insufficient air defense system. The Pakistani air force bases are very dependent on air defense missiles for survival. Pakistan must at least double the quantity of the HQ-9 and HQ-16 systems.
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