Recent tests suggest that Beijing has great confidence in the HJ-10 guided missile platform whether in an amphibious landing or in a mountainous assault.

The Nlational Interest
Date: November 9, 2020
By: Peter Suciu

Here's What You Need to Remember: A year ago Taipei announced that it would buy the American-built Abrams and other hardware in a deal worth $2.2 billion—pending Congressional approval. It is exactly this kind of military equipment that the Chinese seek to counter.

Earlier this week the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced that it had conducted a test of a new anti-tank missile system as part of a so-called “Taiwan Drill.” The exercise, which was conducted in an island-landing exercise from the Bohai Bay earlier this year, was only disclosed on Tuesday—and was possibly meant to serve as a message as much to Taiwan as to the United States.

The South China Morning Post reported that a rocket brigade from the Northern Theater Command conducted the live-fire test from a wheeled vehicle-mounted platform. Beijing didn’t specify exactly which system was involved in the recent exercise, but analysts have speculated it likely was the HJ-10 (also called the Red Arrow-10), a vehicle-loaded guided missile.

It was developed to combat enemy armor such as the U.S.-made M1A2 Abrams main battle tank.
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