China's official Global Times on July 3, 2015, reported that China has deployed HQ-9 air defense missiles to Hetian airfield in the south of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. Hetian is only 260 kilometers from India's Jammu & Kashmir state and the implication is they have been deployed in case there is a potential military strike. Kanwa Defense Review, a Chinese-language magazine based in Canada, said the radar vehicles of HQ-9 air defense missiles have recently been seen at the Hetian air base and assessed that they are there to defend China's western border from a potential air strike launched by the Indian Air Force. Kanwa also said the PLA Air Force had decided in late June to send another air defense brigade from the Guangzhou Military Region to the Gobi desert.