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The HQ-9 (Chinese: 红旗; pinyin: hóng qí red flag or red banner) is China’s new generation medium- to long-range active radar homing air defence missile.The naval HQ-9 appears to be identical to the land-based variant. Its naval type HHQ-9 is equipped in the PLAN Type 052C Lanzhou class destroyer in VLS launch tubes.The land-based HQ-9 system has an anti-radiation variant known as the FT-2000 for export.
