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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

China Conducts Missile Tests In Tibet – Analysis

Sometime in early July 2012, China’s People’s Liberation Army conducted a high altitude exercise with a new type of surface-to-air missile somewhere in the Tibetan plateau under its Lanzhou Military Area Command (MAC).

This was reported by the PLA Daily Online and also by the Tibet Online news portal on 20 July 2012.

The report says that the exercise was carried out at a mountain pass at an altitude of 5000 metres by a mobile PLA unit, and that three missiles were successfully fired at enemy aircraft targets in the “South-east” direction.

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