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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 04:38 AM
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China 'successfully tests missile interceptor'
Source: The Guardian

China successfully tested new technology to intercept missiles in flight yesterday, state media has reported.

The announcement came amid repeated complaints from Beijing over the US sale of weaponry including Patriot "PAC-3" air defence missiles to Taiwan.

In a terse three-sentence report, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late last night that "ground-based midcourse missile interception technology" was tested within Chinese territory.

"The test has achieved the expected objective," it added, without specifying whether the missile had been destroyed, although the US reported detecting a collision.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/china-tests-missile-interceptor
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 05:20 AM
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1. they probably
did the same thing our people did, put a transmitter on the target so the interceptor could find it.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 05:29 AM
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2. They didn't have to go to all that trouble
They could have just asked self-annointed 'super patriot' Ollie North (R) to give them a US missile defense system, the way he gave our US Hawk missiles to the 'Evil Doers' in Iran.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm
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