HQ-10 / HHQ-10

China's short-range naval point-defense missile system, providing a final missile layer against incoming anti-ship missiles and aircraft.

Overview

The HQ-10, designated HHQ-10 in naval service, is a Chinese short-range surface-to-air missile system intended for the close defense of warships. It occupies broadly the same operational category as the US-German RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile: a compact, rapid-reaction interceptor positioned inside a ship's longer-range air-defense layers and outside, or alongside, its gun-based close-in weapon systems.

The system is installed in launchers holding between eight and 24 missiles, depending on ship size. Its reported maximum engagement range is 9 km against subsonic targets and 6 km against supersonic targets, with a minimum range of approximately 500 m. The missile uses an infrared seeker, while some accounts describe an additional passive radio-frequency channel. Public sources disagree over whether the export-market FL-3000N is the same weapon under another designation or a separate CASIC-developed competitor.

HQ-10 launchers equip vessels ranging from Type 056 corvettes to Type 055 destroyers, as well as the aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong. The system's broad distribution makes it a standard point-defense component of the People's Liberation Army Navy surface fleet rather than a specialized installation confined to its largest combatants.

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