KWIC photo [KANWA Jan. 25 Andrei Pinkov] At present, China seems to start to enhance, both in theory and in experiment, its research of the counter-measures against the TMD plan carried out by the USA and Japan. The Knowledge of Weapons Monthly, a publication with a military background, claims that the Chinese army deployed the new ground-to- ground missiles that carried shrapnel heads. The KWIC' s precise information analysis concludes that the Chinese army conducted at least one experiment on its own anti-ballistic missile system in October, 1997. A military source has publicly indicated that the new long-range ground-to-air missile has the capability of attacking the small objects flying at a high velocityame time. There is clear information that China is developing its own long-range ground-to-air missile named 2000 Series, on the basis of Russian S300PMU1.
In the past several months, the military theoretical publications have been consistently exploring the theoretical possibility of increasing the ballistic missile' s flying speed, and shortening the time for the separation of the warhead from the body. According to the publications, the XXXX stealth paint has been successfully developed that can be used for the missile warheads (Kanwa digest news by Andrei Pinkov).
