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.

Imagery	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

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