俄成功进行反导试验

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白桦, 紧追美国升级防御 中国之后俄成功进行反导试验. VOA Chinese, Feb 14, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/new ... 180214/4254323.html

Note:
(a) Russian Aerospace Forces tests upgraded ABM. Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation, Feb 12, 2018 (video)
https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/ ... ?id=12162545@egNews

I can not get the video to work.

(b) "俄罗斯媒体说，最近3个月来俄罗斯2次测试的就是这套反导防御系统中担任末端拦截任务，属于升级版的反导导弹53T6M，在拦截原理等方面与老一代系统没有差别。升级版的反导导弹除了使用新式的发动机外，导弹内部的电子系统也全部更新改进，这使反导导弹的射速更快，能在更远的距离拦截敌方导弹。但与中国刚刚进行的在大气层外导弹拦截试验有所不同，俄罗斯所进行的是大气层内的导弹拦截试验。计划取代目前服役的A-135反导防御系统的新一代系统A-235仍在开发测试之中。"

But the official news media of Russia suggests that the new abm is different from the old one. See Russia Tests Anti-Ballistic Missile Meant to Protect Moscow from Nukes (video). Russia Today, Feb 12, 2018
https://www.rt.com/news/418519-russia-tests-interceptor-missile/

The report does not name target missile or say the hit is inside atmosphere or out (ditto Chinese ABM).
(i) Take notice the "short-range" used to describe 53T6.
(A) definitions for a missile: The range is for distance (horizontal) and height (vertical).
(B) United States has produced at least three kinds of terminal-phase ABM like this: Patriot missile (by Raytheon), various Standard Missiles, and THAAD (by Lockheed-Martin). All are one-stage, and hit-to-kill (Patriot 2 was not hit-to-kill but caused an explosion near the missile being intercepted; SM is sea-based but the other two are land-based). How high an ABM kind can hit a target missile is classified.
(C) "A THAAD has a range of a little under 125 miles, and can target missiles both inside and just outside the atmosphere."  wikipedia.  Patriot-3 hits with limited height (I can not find how high).
(D) "The Kármán line, located within the thermosphere at an altitude of 100 km, is commonly used to define the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space."
(E) VIDEO: New SM-3 Block IIA Intercepts Ballistic Missile in Space For First Time. USNI, Feb 6, 2017.
https://news.usni.org/2017/02/06 ... pace-for-first-time

So, some SM can hit target missiles in space, especially with improvement of technology.
(ii) Click "READ MORE: Russia successfully tests new, upgraded anti-ballistic missile (VIDEO)"  in this RT report to read previous successful test of the same on Nov 24, 2017, which is even vaguet.