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Chinese Long-Range Ballistic Missiles Struck Moving Ship In South China Sea: Report

At least some of the ballistic missiles that China's People's Liberation Army fired into the South China Sea during an exercise earlier this year, which you can read about more in the War Zone's initial story on those drills, reportedly hit a moving target ship. If true, this would be the country's first known demonstration of an actual long-range anti-ship ballistic missile capability, which could significantly change the operational calculus for any potential opponent, including the United States, in the disputed maritime region and elsewhere in the Pacific.

The South China Morning Post reported last week that Wang Xiangsui, a retired People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer, had said that one DF-26B intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) and one DF-21D medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) had struck the target vessel as it sailed near the Paracel Island chain during the August exercise. Wang, who has been described as "well-connected" in the past, is best known as one of the co-authors of the 1999 book Unrestricted Warfare, which covered various asymmetric means to undermine and defeat countries that were technologically superior to China. It has become a highly influential text, and general concept, in national security circles.

US military uses warship to shoot down ICBM in test of missile defense system

By Ryan Browne, CNN

Updated 1636 GMT (0036 HKT) November 17, 2020

(CNN)A missile fired from a US Navy warship successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time Monday during a test of the American missile defense system.

The newly demonstrated capability could bolster the missile defense system against potential missile threats emanating from countries like North Korea.

US military personnel and sailors aboard the USS John Finn "intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target," using the warship's Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptor "during a flight test demonstration in the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii," the Missile Defense Agency said in a statement.

The test ICBM was fired from the US military's test site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands before being intercepted northeast of Hawaii.

Previous tests of the missile defense system involved ground based interceptors in Alaska and California shooting down test ICBMs.

Officials say having the ability of a warship to also shoot down a missile threat adds to the overall missile defense system's capability.

"The Department is investigating the possibility of augmenting the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system by fielding additional sensors and weapon systems to hedge against unexpected developments in the missile threat," the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, Vice Admiral Jon Hill, said in a statement.

"We have demonstrated that an Aegis BMD-equipped vessel equipped with the SM-3 Block IIA missile can defeat an ICBM-class target, which is a step in the process of determining its feasibility as part of an architecture for layered defense of the homeland," he added.