Highly Advanced Surface to Air Missiles Arrive on China’s Island Outpost Near Phillipines
That claim is a long freaking way from China. To be fair it’s hundreds of miles from anywhere sovereign. The Chinese negotiating position just got teeth. I doubt Japan or the Phillipines could easily defeat this AAW system if called upon. Like most modern systems the search radar is powerful, long ranged and very accurate. Usually would be able to identify all aircraft in it’s range. Hopefully it never comes to a fight.
The imagery, which Fox News obtained from Imagesat International and the Pentagon confirmed as legitimate, shows a series of vehicles arrayed along the island’s northeast coastline. These vehicles appear to be transporter-erector-launchers, radar and a slew of support vehicles for the HQ-9 “Red Banner” air defense system.
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