Military – China has test-fired its so-called “Guam killer” ballistic missile, claiming the weapon could strike a moving aircraft carrier, according to a report by the state-run Global Times tabloid.
China Central Television on Thursday broadcast footage of the Chinese military launching a pair of DF-26 anti-ship missiles during a live-fire exercise in northwest China, according to a Sunday report by the newspaper.
The missile can carry conventional and nuclear warheads, and is capable of “both rapid nuclear counter-strikes and conventional medium-and-long range precision strikes,” Chinese defense ministry spokesman Senior Col. Wi Qian said at an April press conference, according to an official English translation of the transcript.
The missile has a “double-cone structure with four fin-like flight control surfaces symmetrically built around the base” meant to help control the weapon’s trajectory, the Global Times report said.
Chinese military experts say the missile’s design allows “increased targeting capability, speed and stealth,” according to the newspaper.
The report, which attributed its information to unnamed experts, said the demonstration disproved doubts raised by Western media about whether the DF-26 can hit a moving target.
