Chinese state media has provided details of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s recent certification trials for a new terminal air-defence and anti-missile system in the Bohai Sea, which are expected to revolutionise the anti-missile capabilities of multiple classes of combat ships.Continue »
The trials tested the system’s interception capability under complex electromagnetic conditions, including against ultra-low-altitude penetration targets.
The new system is expected to be integrated onto the Navy’s Type 055 and Type 052D class destroyers, and possibly onto lighter ship types such as the Type 054 class frigate, and will fill the ultra-low-altitude defence gap between existing missile defence systems such as the HH-9 and HHQ-16, and close-in weapon systems such as the Type 1130.
