Modern Long-Range SAMs: New Threat to Air Superiority

[+MigBuster]

This week two stories from different sides of the world reminded US air power advocates why achieving Air Superiority may be more difficult in the 21st Century than it was at the tail end of the last century. First, it was widely reported that China deployed indigenously produced modern long-range surface-to-air missiles (MLR SAMs) system, the HQ-9 (known is China as the hóng qí, or “red flag”) to Woody Island, a small land mass in the Paracel Islands claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

 

https://fightersweep.com/4116/modern-long-range-sams-new-threat-air-superiority/