LAND-ATTACK CRUISE MISSILE (LACM)
The PLA is known having been seeking long-range land-attack cruise missile (LACM) technology since the early 1990s. So far a number of developmental cruise missiles have been reported, thought no detailed information has yet been published. China’s development of strategic LACM may have been assisted by Russian and Ukrainian technologies. Some sources predicted that the first operational deployment of Chinese indigenous LACM could be as early as 2004~2005. China is also developing air-and sea-launched LACMs.
