The Type 95 SPAAG/SAM consists of a new full-tracked armoured chassis on the roof of which has been installed a new one-person, power-operated turret armed with four 25 mm cannons and four fire-and-forget SAMs. A bank of four electrically operated forward-firing smoke grenade launchers is mounted either side on the lower part of the turret for self-protection.
The gun and missile armament is mounted externally of the turret. A CLC-1 pulse-Doppler search radar mounted on top of the turret has a maximum range of 11km and is reported to be optimised to detect low-flying aircraft and attack helicopters. When the vehicle is travelling, the radar antenna can be folded down forwards to reduce the overall height of the system.
In many respects the Type 95 turret is very similar to that of the Italian Otobreda SIDAM 25 which is armed with four Oerlikon Contraves 25 mm KBA cannon, each of which has a cyclic rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute. At least one SIDAM 25 turrets went to China in the mid-1980s.
