China conducts midcourse anti-ballistic missile interception test

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ China has said that it successfully carried out a land-based mid-course anti-ballistic missile (ABM) technical test on Sunday with Chinese experts claiming that the tests, stated to be the sixth of its kind, validated the reliability of the country’s anti-ballistic missile umbrella.

The test is defensive in nature and not targeted against any country, the Chinese Defence Ministry’s official English website said in a brief statement on Sunday. According to the statement, China conducted a land-based midcourse missile interception test within its territory on June 19 and achieved the desired test objective.

The mid-course ABM test marks the consecutive year China has conducted this kind of test. A similar test was carried out in February 2021.The latest test brings the tally of publicly announced Chinese land-based ABM technical tests to six.

China has carried out the ABM tests in 2010, 2013, 2014, 2018 and 2021, the report said. It was not revealed in which interception phase the test in 2014 was carried out, while all other five were carried out in the mid-course phase, the report said.