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The Arrow is considered one of the most advanced missile defense programs currently in existence. [24] It is the first operational missile defense system specifically designed and built to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles. [25] [26] The first Arrow battery was declared fully operational in October 2000.
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, [a] formerly the Second Artillery Corps, [b] is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China.The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles—both nuclear and conventional.
Meanwhile, China had developed the HQ-9 system, believed to have partially borrowed some of the features on both Russian S-300 and US Patriot technology (fire control). This was China's first indigenous long-range high-performance air defense missile. This was installed on the 052C class warships.
On 3 October 2019, President Vladimir Putin said Russia is assisting China in developing the missile warning system. [2] [3] [4] “We are now helping our Chinese partners to create a missile-warning system, a missile-attack warning system,” Putin said at the Valdai Club conference of foreign-policy experts in Sochi.
In 2008, during the development of the JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile, it was reported that China was considering modifying the missile to accommodate an anti-satellite warhead to give it a sea-based anti-satellite capability. [6] A 2016 US Congress report warns about China developing space weapons to destroy American satellites. [7]
The US military shot down a ballistic missile for the first time from Guam this week, marking a significant step toward strengthening defenses on the Pacific island well within reach of China's ...
The construction of the Korla Missile Test Complex began in 2009. [3] In 2015 the DN-3’s anti-satellite capabilities are believed to have been tested with a launch from Korla. [6] In 2016 the complex hosted a midcourse ballistic missile defense test. [7] The PLA claimed that four successful tests had taken place at Korla. [8]
The Dong Feng-26 or DF-26 (simplified Chinese: 东风-26; traditional Chinese: 東風-26; lit. 'East Wind-26'; NATO reporting name: CH-SS-18 [4]) is an intermediate-range ballistic missile deployed by the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force and produced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).