Our military area air defense backbone - Red motor system

Since 1949, our military branches of the military are beginning to regularization. One of the most important air defense forces by the party's Central Military Commission attaches great importance. Especially in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea in the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force can do anything, I volunteer ground troops indiscriminate bombing. The army's anti-aircraft weapons until the late 1950s, began from the anti-aircraft guns of various calibres, development in a series of ground-to-air missiles to the red flag.

The first generation of surface-to-air missile, the introduction of the C-75 series of Soviet surface-to-air missile. This star the number of weapons in NATO as the SA-2. Localization development and introduction while imitation success in 1964. Named red flag -1 missile system alert object, the air-ground vertical height of 3-25 km, the slant range 12-30 km altitude, high-speed aircraft, as well as part slow cruise missiles. In southern China, Northwest China in the 1960s, has been harassing US-Chiang reconnaissance aircraft. I Air Force F-5 F-6 Series fighter, difficult attacks to their U2 series of high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft hardware. Carefully calculated end-use Hongqi-2 surface-to-air missile shot down a series of US-Chiang military reconnaissance plane.



Our country in the study of surface-to-air missiles put a lot of money and manpower, but not always in the guidance, warning, missile systems breakthrough. Hongqi -2 series developed after 1967, 61 series of surface-to-air missile of the Ford Ids Vcm 1980s, the red flag to assume our military homeland defense tasks. But anti-aircraft missiles on the ship against saturation attacks in high-altitude air defense missiles, as well as the anti-missile system developed extremely well.