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According to Hong Kong media reported on November 24, China on November 23 were hypersonic flight test aircraft. It reported that test, code-named protagonist DF-ZF, this aircraft is the Pentagon had named WU-14.
 
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China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Attack Vehicle

By Brendan Byrne on November 27, 2015 11:29 am

The sixth flight test of the DZ-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was declared a success on Monday, moving China closer to possessing a global strike capability.

China Wu-14 hypersonic glide vehicle

China is working on the ultra-fast maneuverable strike weapon, which will be able to penetrate existing missile defense systems, writes Bill Gertz for The Washington Free Beacon. The glide vehicle was launched on top of a ballistic missile from the Wuzhai missile test center in Central China, according to defense officials.

Hypersonic vehicle could deliver nuclear or conventional warheads

After detaching from the launcher near the edge of space, the vehicle glided to an impact site several thousand miles away. U.S. intelligence agencies tracked the flight, during which the vehicle reach speeds of over five times the speed of sound (Mach 5).

Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban declined to comment. “We do not comment on specific PRC weapons tests, but we do monitor Chinese military modernization carefully,” he said.

Beijing appears to be placing a high priority on developing the vehicle, which has been tested 6 times since last year. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that the DZ-ZF is a nuclear delivery vehicle that boasts such maneuverability at high speeds that it would dodge existing missile defense systems.

Military specialists also think that the DZ-ZF could be used to deliver conventional weapons around the globe. It travels at between Mach 5 and Mach 10, or 3,836 miles per hour and 7,680 miles per hour.

Chinese research projects worrying for U.S. officials

Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, expressed his worries over hypersonic glide vehicles last year. The annual report of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission states that China’s research into hypersonic weapons is “progressing rapidly.”

The report says that the DZ-ZF could be ready by 2020, and a ramjet-propelled cruise missile by 2025. It is thought that China would use nuclear-armed hypersonic vehicles in its retaliatory strike capabilities, while conventional warheads could be delivered over long-distances.

Air Force Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, former deputy commander of Strategic Command, said that hypersonic missiles offer a number of advantages. “It offers a number of different ways to overcome defenses, whether those are conventional, or if someone would decide to use a nuclear warhead, I think gives it an even more complicated dimension,” Kowalski said.

At this time only China, the United States and Russia are working on hypersonic weapons. Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said that Beijing may be working on a conventional global attack capability much like the Prompt Global Strike program that is being developed by the U.S.

China close to having global strike capability

Fisher claims that China’s new Kuaizhou-2 launcher could be used in conjunction with Beijing’s anti-satellite missiles in addition to boosting the DZ-ZF to intercontinental range. At the same time China is developing surveillance satellites that will enable it to use precision global strike weapons.

By 2030 China will have around 138 satellites in space, which “means that an intercontinental [Prompt Global Strike] launched from China against U.S. targets could benefit from multiple target location updates,” Fisher said.

China maintains a veil of secrecy around its military technology programs and has refused to negotiate limits on strategic weapons, raising fears in Washington. Some are calling for the U.S. to push ahead with developing its own Prompt Global Strike capability in order to compete with China.

Relations between the two nations are becoming increasingly strained due to various geopolitical factors, and the development of hypersonic weapons could give one nation the edge over the other.


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Dongfeng military network 2015-09-21 14:18:00


Dongfeng military (东风军事网-最新热点军事资讯网 The so-called hypersonic airplane hypersonic aircraft is a member of the family, in general, we will fly faster than 6200 kilometers per hour, the aircraft became hypersonic aircraft and manned superb sonic referred to as hypersonic aircraft aircraft, currently the fastest man-made flying military aircraft in the United States SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft, its flight speed of not more than an hour 4000 kilometers, and let the driver safety ride in a flight within faster than Mach 5 or more aircraft, its technical requirements are high. September 18, according to the aviation industry, state media reported recently, the center of a new hypersonic flight demonstrator flight test is successful, the article said, "the aircraft mission profile special, unique way flight, flight speed and height is far more than the test since the center was established for all other test models. "
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Figure China's new hypersonic aircraft shape Imaginative

The article also includes a first exposure this not only hypersonic aircraft, but also has a test pilot, the article said:. "A few hours after takeoff, an airline task completion dark aircraft, from wide-angle deep sky dive close to chic complete flare, light to float to the airport runway, the whole process is like a sword sheath also accurate chic. " The article describes the plane quintana dark, due to hypersonic aircraft flying at high speed, the surface temperature of the black high-temperature insulation materials need to ensure that the body, so this description can be basically confirmed hypersonic flight characteristics of the aircraft, in addition to reports that flight I grew up in a few hours time, also beyond the Chinese media this aircraft powered maturity guess.

It reported that "the flight test center to achieve a breakthrough in the field of hypersonic flight, flag flight test center in kind, art is more mature. New areas, new challenges, flight test center for young people, here is a new starting point, China will witness a faster pace and that China attaches a higher place, it is the beginning of a dream place. "

At present, humans can achieve hypersonic flight are basically two ways, one is propelled gliding, both aircraft itself is not power, accelerated by providing speed boosters, our multiple tests of WU-14 aircraft belonging to this one type. Another is to use a turbine, rocket, stamping and other pulse detonation engine based tandem engine turbine based combined. The so-called tandem-type turbine based combined cycle engine, that is, the simple combination of different types of engines, different Mach number range, using only one engine, i.e., the use of the relay-type work.

The United States in the development of SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft J-58 engine used to belong to the aforementioned combined engine, visible power is the key to the development of this aircraft. In the August 25, AVIC Qingan engine group more products program evaluation research reports related stories, a so-called "tandem engine turbo punch combination" first appeared, and confirm this new research engine will "as an aircraft supporting. " Referred to here is the above-mentioned article reported the hypersonic demonstrator. Test flight from the aircraft flight test center has been transferred, it is clear already conducted several test aircraft to verify the basic flight performance.


According to military experts say China a "tandem engine turbo punch combination" secret aircraft project has been carried out over seven years, the outside world that this aircraft is the China project total catch Chengdu Aircraft Research Institute developed a "black technology" project. Hang from media reports, China's new hypersonic manned aircraft substantially similar to the United States SR-71 "Blackbird" strategic reconnaissance aircraft, but the aircraft's flight index will surpass the US SR-71 "Blackbird", the highest flight speed reaches nearly 5 times to 7 times the speed of sound, which is the upper limit of human technology manned aircraft. Fraser military experts believe that China is currently pre-research of this hypersonic aircraft will probably have a similar multi-purpose design requirements, if deemed strategic bombers can bomb Tokyo within 20 minutes, the bombing of Guam within 50 minutes. Interestingly, Japan and the US media this time choose the collective silence.

Military experts for further analysis, said Fraser, currently the world's countries to carry out research of hypersonic aircraft, although many, but really were not much to the practical stage, to create a demonstrator or prototype two countries only China and the US, can be seen the degree of difficulty of this technology is high, Chinese research on such aircraft generally reflects that China has caught up with the United States in an area hypersonic research aircraft, on the whole, if the report does have a manned aircraft the ability to fly, then the machine will be publicly reported, the world's fastest airplane flight.

Since the flight speed can make it easier to avoid the hypersonic aircraft of enemy air defense missiles to fight back, so a hypersonic aircraft with an excellent platform to use as a strategic reconnaissance, while the platform as a strategic strike, hypersonic aircraft can also carry anti-ship missile high-speed assault on enemy aircraft, also can carry cruise missiles on enemy targets in depth "surgical" precision strike. From this point of view after several high supersonic combat aircraft and anti-ship missile that is has become a hypersonic aircraft, China's another trump card.

Original title: China RESEARCH successful maiden flight of the world's fastest military aircraft to 20 minutes to let Japan-US bombing of Tokyo silence
世界最快军机首飞成功 可20分钟轰炸东京 - 东风军事网
poor translation mate, google translation not to be trusted.
 
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According to Hong Kong media reported on November 24, China on November 23 were hypersonic flight test aircraft. It reported that test, code-named protagonist DF-ZF, this aircraft is the Pentagon had named WU-14.

so it is both aircraft and missile, or missile with pilot?
 
so it is both aircraft and missile, or missile with pilot?
It is neither a missile nor an aircraft. DF-ZF is a hypersonic gliding vehicle capable of both nuclear and conventional strike globally, it has to be launched into sub-orbit using stages of ballistic missile, it is not designed to carry any pilot or human being, come on dude, we are not Japanese Kamikaze. The post you quoted had terrible translation.
 
It is neither a missile nor an aircraft. DF-ZF is a hypersonic gliding vehicle capable of both nuclear and conventional strike globally, it has to be launched into sub-orbit using stages of ballistic missile, it is not designed to carry any pilot or human being, come on dude, we are not Japanese Kamikaze. The post you quoted had terrible translation.

can you help to summarize it, the translation make us confusing.
 
cn should post least abt this. it should stay hidden and keep enemies with bad intention guessing. anyway well done with the sky show
 
cn should post least abt this. it should stay hidden and keep enemies with bad intention guessing. anyway well done with the sky show
It is good to disclose due to a number of reasons

1) You send out a strong message to enemies around the globe
2) You make the enemy invest and spend more into finding measures to counter it. Even wonderful if you are involved in economic war as well
3) You stamp your authority as a (growing) global military might

So a good decision to disclose it. Anyways, you also cannot keep such a high profile test stay hidden when you have to close the airspace for an hour so its cool to brag big time about it :)
 
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