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China Launches Antiship Ballistic Missiles in Test

On August 26, China test fired multiple ballistic missiles, which landed at a site near Hainan and the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. According to Chinese reports, Chinese forces launched one DF-26B from Qinghai in the country’s northwest and one DF-21D ballistic missile from the eastern province of Zhejiang. U.S. intelligence sources later...

Report: China Developing Nuclear-Capable ALBM

On April 10, The Diplomat revealed that China is developing and flight testing a nuclear-capable air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM). According to the report, the U.S. intelligence community has designated the missile – likely a variant of the DF-21 MRBM – as CH-AS-X-13. The missile was first tested in December 2016 and was most recently tested...

Ballistic and Cruise Missile Defense Advances

Several recent tests suggest progress for both ballistic and cruise missile defenses. On June 22, a Ground-based Interceptor (GBI) successfully destroyed a long-range target high above the Pacific. As the only system for homeland missile defense, the GBI test represents a welcome departure from three past intercept failures in 2010 and 2013, which involved both...