US detected the Chinese missile test in space.
Pentagon confirms that China shot down warhead in space
Cary Huang in Beijing
Jan 13, 2010
South China Morning PostWashington asked Beijing yesterday for more information about Monday’s rocket test, in which a missile destroyed an incoming warhead while it was still in space. The US said it wanted China to clarify its intentions and plans to develop such technologies.
The US Defence Department confirmed it had detected a so-called mid-course test and said Beijing had not given it advance notice.
“We detected two geographically separated missile launch events with an exo-atmospheric collision also being observed by space-based sensors,” Major Maureen Schumann, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said. It was the first independent confirmation of China’s missile interception test on Monday, which appears to have been a success as Beijing claimed.
China became only the second nation, after the United States, to successfully test a mid-course anti-missile system.
By: sferrin - 21st January 2010 at 13:16
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15271130
Hell they probably got the GBI engineering package hand-delivered to them.
By: Blueshark - 21st January 2010 at 11:37
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15271130
As China’s army flexes its muscles, a missile is intercepted in space
Jan 14th 2010 | BEIJING
From The Economist print editionAFTER startling the world three years ago with the blizzard of hazardous space debris scattered by a secretive test of an anti-satellite missile, China this week tried a more upfront approach. Instead of waiting for the Pentagon to tell the world, the official news agency, Xinhua, on January 11th tersely announced China’s successful test of a land-based missile-defence system. It was not, it said, directed at any other country.
For an army that rarely flaunts its technological achievements, this marked a cautious openness. But that will hardly reassure the Americans.
The test apparently made China the only country after America to use a missile to destroy another in space.
A Pentagon official confirmed that two missiles had been detected and that they had collided outside the earth’s atmosphere. The Pentagon was not informed in advance.
By: sferrin - 18th January 2010 at 21:03
Good thing Barry’s ending developement of ours. :rolleyes:
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January 18, 2010 at 11:23 am