He observed acommand postexercise and visited the Chinese army's 2nd Artillery Corps headquarters, where he viewedaCSS-7 short-rangeballisticmissileon a mobilelauncher.
Evolutionary sea-based defenses, an early version of which conducted a successful intercept of a short-range ballisticmissile two months ago, meet both of these tests.
Substantial Foreign Interest in Defenses: It is these threats, and the advantages of space-based defenses to ameliorate them, that have caught the attention of the Western European Union, whose member countries are already exposed to short- as well as longer-range ballisticmissile threats.