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Monday, April 11, 2011

The New Chinese Missile Looks Very Familiar

Iskander-E Missile SystemChina recently introduced, for the export market, the M20 ballistic missile.

This is a system where two of these 3-4 ton missiles are carried on a large truck transporter/launcher.

What is worrisome to Russia is that the M20 looks very similar to the Russian Iskander (9K720) system.

Increasingly, Russia has accused China of stealing a great deal of Russian military technology, and warned of repercussions if China tried to sell these copies to the export market.

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