Chinese missile warning system

The Chinese missile warning system is a national strategic defence asset being developed[1] by China with assistance from Russia.[2]

Chinese military efforts

China has been known to be developing a missile warning system since about 2014.[1] The designation “JL-1A” has been associated with this system.

Russia’s involvement

On 3 October 2019, President Vladimir Putin said Russia is China in developing the missile warning system.[2][3][4] “We are now helping our Chinese partners to create a missile-warning system, a missile-attack warning system,” Putin said at the Valdai Club conference of foreign-policy experts in Sochi. “This is a very serious thing that will dramatically increase China’s defense capability, because only the US and Russia have such a system now.”[3]

On 4 October 2019, Sergei Boyev, director general of Vympel NPO, a major weapons manufacturer in Russia, confirmed to Russia's state-run media that the company was working on "modelling" the system for China.[5]

Russia operates the Voronezh radar system, which it continues to develop. This may be used as a basis for the Chinese system.

References
  1. China – Missile Attack Warning, Global Security, (version 2019-10-06 18:40:39Z) accessed 2019-10-08
  2. China’s Russian-backed missile warning system ‘drastically’ reduces warfare claims expert, Luke Hawker, Express, 2019-10-04
  3. Putin Says Russia Is Helping China Build Missile Warning System, Stepan Kravchenko, Bloomberg, 2019-10-04
  4. Russia, China: Cooperation on a Missile Warning System Points to an Increasing Alignment, Omar Lamrani, Stratfor, 2019-10-04
  5. Russia is helping China build a new missile attack warning system, Putin says, Daria Litvinova, CBS News, 2019-10-04
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