China Tests Missile Defense System against Medium Range Ballistic Missile
Interceptor Shield Report
Nathan J Hunt
January 13, 2010
The Chinese government on Monday January 11th announced that they had successful conducted a test of a missile defense system that they stated is capable of intercepting medium range ballistic missiles. The government stated the test was a success but at this point no further information is available on where in China the test took place at, the test on Monday comes as China has denounced the pending sale of the Patriot missile defense system to the country of Taiwan that is currently in progress with the United States and China has stated the sale of the Patriot Missile Defense System would severely effect relations between the United States and China. In recent years the Chinese have been expanding their modernization programs to bring china’s military up to grade with programs for the Navy, Air Force and Army and further expanding its sub fleet and missile boomers strike ability.
Since the 1990’s China has been striving to expand and improve their ballistic missile forces and second strike ability but in recent years China has shown they are now putting effort into developing and acquiring missile defense technology and related knowledge .
China and Missile defense!
China in recent years has not only been expanding its offensive forces but has also been putting effort into developing technology for the development of missile defense systems. Most notably the Chinese conducted their first launch a satellite kill vehicle in January 11th 2007 that intercepted and destroyed and old weather satellite that the Chinese stated was of no longer of any use and was going to be replaced, this test not only showed Chinese ability to further develop their ability to of being able to intercept and destroy enemy satellites but also their ability to build a system for intercepting targets in orbit and now three years since the last test and again on January the 11th China has conducted a new highly visible missile defense test to demonstrate their expanding ability.
