Pak gets powerful missile tracking system from China: Report

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ In an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system which could speed up the development of multi-warhead missiles by its all-weather ally, the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences said.

Zheng Mengwei, a researcher with the CAS Institute of Optics and Electronics in Chengdu, Sichuan province, confirmed to the Hong Kong-based daily said that Pakistan had bought a highly sophisticated, large-scale optical tracking and measurement system from China.

“We simply gave them a pair of eyes. They can use them to look at whatever they want to see, even the Moon,” he said. Zheng said he could not elaborate on the technology nor where in Pakistan it was being used as it involved the country’s defence interests.

He, however, said that the Pakistani military recently deployed the Chinese-made system “at a firing range” for use in testing and developing new missiles. China was the first country to export such sensitive equipment to Pakistan, the CAS said.

The report attributed the sale of the equipment to Pakistan to India testing the most advanced nuclear-ready intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-V with a range long enough to hit Beijing or Shanghai.