China's acquisition of 16 Russian-built anti-ship missiles has spurred the U.S. Navy to acquire some to test the defensive capabilities of its Aegis-equipped surface warfare fleet. The Pentagon announced yesterday that the Russian Sunburn missile is one of seven foreign military systems that will be tested under the fiscal year 2000 Foreign Comparative Testing program. "China recently obtained a limited number of these long-range, all-weather, supersonic sea-skimming, anti-ship missiles," according to the announcement. "This increases the need to improve, test,...
