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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

China Missile Test Has Ominous Implications

HQ-9 missile launchConfusion over the nature of China's Jan. 11 missile test is slowly clearing up, although experts still dispute whether it was designed to test missile interception technology, as reported by Xinhua, China's state news agency, or to expand anti-satellite capabilities.

Sources believe the test involved an upgraded HQ-9 surface-to-air missile (SAM) equipped with a new exoatmospheric kill vehicle for use as a ballistic missile defense or anti-satellite (ASAT) system.

China's land-based and ship-based HQ-9 is a variant of the Russian S-300V SAM.

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