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China has released a footage of its first interception test for mid-course ballistic missile defense system in 2010.

The video was released by China Central Television (CCTV) on Sunday.
The People's Republic of China carried out a land-based high-altitude anti-ballistic missile test on 11 January 2010. This reportedly made China the second country in the world after the United States of America to successfully destroy an incoming missile beyond the Earth's atmosphere.

The flight of Intercontinental ballistic missiles has three stages in air, the boost phase (the 1st phase), the mid-course phase (the 2nd phase), and the final reentry phase (also known as terminal phase). The Chinese test targeted on the mid-course phase when the target was out of the atmosphere. The test was said to be successful. The full name of the test is called the Test of the Land-based Mid-course Phase Anti-ballistic Missile Interception Technology (simplified Chinese: 陆基中段反导拦截技术试验). However, the exact launch sites and types of these two missiles are not clarified in Chinese news, although it was rumored that the interceptor was designated the DN-1 or "Dong Neng 1".

According to The Pentagon, Beijing did not inform the test in advance back then. The Pentagon spokeswoman Major Maureen Schumann says "We detected two geographically separated missile launch events with an exo-atmospheric collision also being observed by space-based sensors"