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