They probably mean the HQ-19, because when it was first used for ASAT capabilities I think they thought or it was a repurposed DF-21.
PLA Anti-Air Missile (SAM) systems
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HQ-9 is the long range SAM system used to cover a large area. It's primarily meant to engage aircraft but it has some anti ballistic missile capability as well, dealing with slower ballistic missiles. It's an expensive system using top of the line tech. It's PLAAF's primary long range and large area coverage system.
HQ-22 is the lower cost counterpart to the HQ-9. It has a similar role, though is less capable, using cheaper technology. In the end, its coverage area is also smaller than that of the HQ-9. It's used to plug in the gaps between HQ-9 units and deploy to less demanding areas.
HQ-11 is a point defense system that is used to protect various important facilities against cruise missile strikes and bomb strikes. Of course, it also has anti aircraft capabilities but given its short range, it's unlikely it would actually get to engage aircraft often.
HQ-19 is an anti ballistic missile defense system. Expensive and advanced, geared to protect certain approaches (not whole areas but approaches to an area) by shooting down enemy's long range ballistic missiles and, plausibly, to some extent even hypersonic gliders.
If I may, source?
report also include this.
Launch on Warning, The PLA is working to implement LOW posture by 2030, called “early warning counterstrike” (预警反击), where warning of a missile strike leads to a counterstrike before an enemy first strike can detonate..
Kinda like Soviet dead hand automatic or semi-automatic system ??
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Could be related to a certain academic paper from June this year?
ULRSAM with >2000 kilometer max range, should be able to fit inside UVLS-sized canisters, vertically-launched, active radar-homing capabilities, etc.
A screen grab of what appears to be an academic paper that lists the requirements of a super long-range SAM designed to hit enemy AWACs and bombers. Does anyone have access to the paper?
Some of the requirements listed are:
– Max range > 2000km
– Missile length <10m
– Missile diameter <0.8m
– Mass <4 tons
– Two stages
– Vertically launched
– Active radar homing (?)
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