Source: South China Morning PostThe latest member of China’s home-grown “Flying Mongoose” family of field air defence missile systems has been cleared for export.The HQ-17AE, dubbed a “low altitude aircraft hunter”, is designed to keep up with frontline units like tank battalions and protect them from drone and helicopter attacks. It consists of a six-wheeled launch vehicle carrying eight short-range air-defence missiles and a solid-state phased-array radar system.US test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile to Pacific…Read More