China has shot down an approaching missile outside the atmosphere in a missile defence test.
According to experts quoted in state media on Friday, the successful experiment shows that China has mastered the technology and that its anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defence system is “gradually maturing and becoming more reliable.”
It was the fourth land-based test and the fifth of its kind since 2010, and the missile – usually a medium-range or intercontinental ballistic missile – had been intercepted in the longer mid-flight phase.
The Ministry of Defence stressed that it was a purely defensive test “not directed against any other country.”(dpa/NAN)
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