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China Releases Test Footage of Ballistic Missile Defense System (mirror.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mirror.co.uk: China has released footage of its first interception test of a mid-air ballistic missile, destroying a target miles above Earth. Footage of the experiment, which took place in 2010, has never been made public until now. According to Chinese news agency CCTV, Xu Chunguang, an expert working at a military base in northwest China, said: "All of our research is meant to solve problems that may crop up in future actual combats." It reportedly took researchers another three years to develop the core technologies to improve the system. A second successful test was reportedly conducted in January 2013. China's decision to finally release the footage could be seen as a warning shot to the U.S., which was critical of China for not notifying the Pentagon of the tests at the time. In May, China announced it would send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Atlantic Ocean, arguing it had little choice if America continued to advance its weapons systems. China has recently denounced South Korea's decision to deploy a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to counter threats from North Korea, saying that it harmed the foundation of their mutual trust.
Venezuela has been allowing China to park their first Jin nuke carrying subs there for 6 long years since the first 1 went operational.
It has been prowling the gulf all this time. At this moment, the sub goes around the horn, but the reason for China building a new canal through central america has nothing to do with cargo and everything to do with allowing nuke subs to transfer quietly and unseen by the west, via the new DEEP canal.
This is part of the reason why America remains in the south Chinese sea.
and unseen by the west, via the new DEEP canal.
It's not deep enough for that. Sorry, one doesn't sneak a sub through a canal with satellite and human int coverage.