Air Defense Facilities
The Air Force has 220,000 air defense personnel who control about 100 surface-to-air missile sites and over 16,000 antiaircraft guns. In addition, it has a large number of early-warning, ground-control-intercept, and air-base radars. The location of most of these air defense installations remains obscure, apart from a few SAM sites near Taiwan. Surface-to-air missiles include the 50km-range HQ-2J, a Chinese produced variant of the Soviet SA-2. Three batteries of the 100km-range SA-10 were imported from Russia and deployed under the HQ-10 nomenclature, apparently forming an air defense barrier opposite Taiwan.
| LOCATION | ALTERNATE NAMES | MISSILES | LAT | LON | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuzhou Airbase | HQ-2 | 26°01'N | 119°22'E | ||
| Liancheng Airbase | Lianfeng | HQ-2 | 25°47'N | 116°48'E | |
| Longtian Airbase | Lung-T'ien | HQ-2 | HQ-10 | 25°35'N | 119°22'E |
| Shantou Northeast Airfield | HQ-2 | HQ-10 | 23°25'N | 116°45'E | |
| Xiamen Airport | Gaoqi International Airport | HQ-2 | HQ-10 | 24°32'N | 118°07'E |
| Zhangzhou Airbase | Chang-Chou | HQ-2 | 24°35'N | 117°40'E | |
