Chinese version of the Russian Tor M1 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system unveiled

According to pictures circulating on the internet, the Chinese edition of the Tor M1 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system has been unveiled and leaked to the media.

This air defense missile system, dubbed HQ-17 (Hongqi-17), is a cloned edition of the Russian Tor M1 SAM. When a designer from the Russian Kupol factory seeing the photos of HQ17, he said that this confirmed Russia’s long-term suspicion that China had cloned Tor-M1,