India has a two tier defense system designed to intercept missiles in their terminal and Mid-course phases.
The Hindu News Update Service
This ABM system was designed to counter the missiles fired at India by Pakistan.
There is already a development team working on phase 2 of the system to be trialed in 2011.
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Brag as much as you want about china dont speak as if you know about India.
while China may have done a Mid course intercept at a very high altitude. A lot of things are still unknown as to the nature of the missile used, was it even Hypersonic. what's its range.
Can China Intercept warheads in their terminal Phases as well.
A mid course intercept is nothing special. Its just part of the Shield.
If you cant intercept terminal warheads that are hurtling down to the planet at hypersonic speeds. That mid course intercept will do you little against anything That gets past.
In fact as the article points out the mid course intercept can even highlight a weakness as the Missile is traveling slowest velocities at this point. And if China is only able to intercept warheads in the Mid course period. its a significant weakness.
But all this about china us just speculation. we know nothing about what China has.
They may very well have a fully fledged and operating system.
Or they may very well have staged the whole thing.
or the whole even was orchestrated by aliens.
Key point we have no information on what China has or does not have.
So claiming that the mid course intercept is harder to do is nothing but a load of BS.