Bluffer’s Guide: Fortress China

By Planeman

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5. Beijing Defenses

Beijing is the capital of China.

The remains of two belts of HQ-2 sites (The new “Great wall”) left over from the cold war remain active:

The defenses were modernized with S-300PMU SAMs in the 1990s.

Those were in turn partly replaced by the more capable S-300PMU-1s when they became available and now HQ-9 is also deployed.

Forgetting the old HQ-2s for a moment, the combined air-defense picture looks like this:

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