Editing Anti-ballistic missile (section)

===People's Republic of China===
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[[File:HQ-19 launcher in Zhuhai airshow 2024.jpg|thumb|HQ-19 launcher in Zhuhai airshow 2024]]

==== Historical Project 640 ====
Project 640 had been the PRC's indigenous effort to develop ABM capability.<ref name="sinodefence.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.sinodefence.com/special/airdefence/project640.asp |title=Project 640: China's National Missile Defence in the '70s |publisher=SinoDefence.com |access-date=11 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213232047/http://www.sinodefence.com/special/airdefence/project640.asp |archive-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> The Academy of Anti-Ballistic Missile & Anti-Satellite was established from 1969 for the purpose of developing Project 640.<ref name="sinodefence.com" /> The project was to involve at least three elements, including the necessary sensors and guidance/command system, the Fan Ji (FJ) missile interceptor, and the XianFeng missile-intercepting cannon.<ref name="sinodefence.com" /> The FJ-1 had completed two successful flight tests during 1979, while the low-altitude interceptor FJ-2 completed some successful flight tests using scaled prototypes.<ref name="sinodefence.com" /> A high altitude FJ-3 interceptor was also proposed. Despite the development of missiles, the programme was slowed down due to financial and political reasons. It was finally closed down during 1980 under a new leadership of Deng Xiaoping as it was seemingly deemed unnecessary after the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States and the closure of the US [[Safeguard Program|Safeguard]] ABM system.<ref name="sinodefence.com" />

==== Operational Chinese systems ====
In March 2006, China tested an interceptor system comparable to the U.S. Patriot missiles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2006032829898 |title=donga.com[English donga&#93; |publisher=English.donga.com |date=28 March 2006 |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620031722/http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2006032829898 |archive-date=20 June 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.missilethreat.com/archives/id.537/detail.asp |title=Chinese Version of Patriot Interceptor Said Undergoing Tests |publisher=MissileThreat |date=29 March 2006 |access-date=11 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720065356/http://www.missilethreat.com/archives/id.537/detail.asp |archive-date=20 July 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100112_1311.php |title=Pentagon Received No Warning of Chinese Missile Defense Test |publisher=Globalsecuritynewswire.org |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213234815/http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100112_1311.php |archive-date=13 December 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

China has acquired and is license-producing the [[SA-10A Grumble#S-300PMU-1/2 (SA-20)|S-300PMU-2/S-300PMU-1]] series of terminal ABM-capable SAMs. The [[HQ-9]] SAM system<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sinodefence.com/army/surfacetoairmissile/hongqi9.asp |title=HongQi 9 (HQ-9) Surface-to-Air Missile System |publisher=SinoDefence.com |date=3 October 2009 |access-date=11 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904130239/http://www.sinodefence.com/army/surfacetoairmissile/hongqi9.asp |archive-date=4 September 2013 }}</ref> and [[HQ-15]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hongqi-15 (HQ-15) |url=http://www.missilethreat.com/missiledefensesystems/id.29/system_detail.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505035238/http://www.missilethreat.com/missiledefensesystems/id.29/system_detail.asp |archive-date=5 May 2012 |access-date=11 May 2012 |publisher=MissileThreat}}</ref> may possess terminal ABM capabilities. PRC Navy's operating modern air-defense destroyers known as the [[Type 052C|Type 052C Destroyer]] and [[Type 051C destroyer|Type 051C Destroyer]] are armed with naval HQ-9 missiles.

The [[HQ-19]], roughly analogous to the [[THAAD]], was first tested in 2003, and subsequently a few more times, including in November 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/11/did-china-just-test-a-new-satellite-killer|title=Did China Just Test a New Satellite-Killer?|first=David|last=Axe|date=11 November 2015|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref> The HQ-29, a counterpart to the [[MIM-104 Patriot#MIM-104F (PAC-3)|MIM-104F PAC-3]], was first tested in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/hq-29.htm|title=HQ-29 Anti-Ballistic Missile Interceptor|first=John|last=Pike|website=www.globalsecurity.org|access-date=21 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806195843/http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/hq-29.htm|archive-date=6 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

China carried out a [[2010 Chinese anti-ballistic missile test|land-based anti-ballistic missile test]] on 11 January 2010. The test was exoatmospheric and the intercept performed in midcourse phase by a [[kinetic kill vehicle]].<ref name="wikileaks">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/china-wikileaks/8299323/DEMARCHE-FOLLOWING-CHINAS-JANUARY-2010-INTERCEPT-FLIGHT-TEST.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Demarche Following China's January 2010 Intercept Flight-Test | date=2 February 2011 | access-date=4 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203065924/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/china-wikileaks/8299323/DEMARCHE-FOLLOWING-CHINAS-JANUARY-2010-INTERCEPT-FLIGHT-TEST.html | archive-date=3 February 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> The interceptor missile was a [[DF-21#KT ABM/ASAT|SC-19]].<ref name="wikileaks" /><ref name="anti-BM">{{cite web|url=http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2010-01-12/0247580308.html |script-title=zh:我国试验陆基反导 此前仅美国进行过相关试验 |publisher=SINA News |date=12 January 2010 <!-- 02:47   --> |access-date=11 January 2010| language=zh| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100114072145/http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2010-01-12/0247580308.html| archive-date= 14 January 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> The sources suggest the system was not operationally deployed as of 2010.<ref name="wikileaks" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100114_5918.php |title=NTI |publisher=Global Security Newswire |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119032640/http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100114_5918.php |archive-date=19 January 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 27 January 2013, China conducted another anti-ballistic missile test. According to the Chinese Defense Ministry, the missile launch was defensive in character and was not aimed against any countries. On 4 February 2021, China reportedly conducted a mid-course intercept anti-ballistic missile test.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/china-conducts-another-mid-course-anti-ballistic-missile-test |title=China conducts another mid-course anti-ballistic missile test |website=Janes |date=8 February 2021 |first=Andrew |last=Tate}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39093/china-claims-it-has-conducted-a-new-midcourse-intercept-anti-ballistic-missile-test |title=China Claims It Has Conducted A New Midcourse Intercept Anti-Ballistic Missile Test |website=The Drive |date=4 February 2021 |first=Joseph |last=Trevithick |access-date=13 May 2021 |archive-date=13 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513164726/https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39093/china-claims-it-has-conducted-a-new-midcourse-intercept-anti-ballistic-missile-test |url-status=dead}}</ref>