No, GMD is not Guomindang in this context but rather for Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, ie, defense against ballistic missiles such as ICBM.
A video of the test is here (
here)and in youtube.
China carries out land-based mid-course missile interception test
Xinhua | January 27, 2013 23:38
By Agencies
www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/758501/China-carries-out-land-based-mid-course-missile-interception-test.aspx
China again carried out a land-based mid-course missile interception test within its territory Sunday.
Xinhua learned the news from the Information Bureau of China's Defense Ministry.
"The test has reached the preset goal," an official with the bureau said.
"The test is defensive in nature and targets no other country," he said.
*ttp://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/758501/China-carries-out-land-based-mid-course-missile-interception-test.aspx
3 comments:
Hopefully China will not sink more time and money into this useless and expensive enterprise.
Hopefully Chinese will not sink more time and money into this wasteful and expensive enterprise
I agree with anno. Better off with more war heads and missiles. Setting some small timed charges on the missiles during its flight course can throw off the kinetic kill round of missile defense systems based on computer calculations of the probable trajectory of the warhead.
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