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THE United States has been beaten in a hypersonic arms race after China successfully tested a 'spaceship' that can carry weapons across the world 10 times faster than the speed of sound.
GLIDER: The vehicles are designed to carry missiles and monitor military activity from space [IG]
The unmanned aircraft can therefore leave the Chinese capital Beijing and be hanging over Washington D.C in less than 45 minutes - raising worries in the White House.
With an advanced radar system that can target locations from the edge of space, this ultra-fast vehicle can manouvre itself anywhere around the globe.
The futuristic carrier, which can fly almost 20 times as fast as a jumbo jet, can hold ballistic missiles with hypersonic cruise missiles and smaller surveillance drones expected to be on board.
This latest design in foreign weapon intelligence comes as China refuses to take up arms talks with its economic rivals.
A Pentagon official confirmed a WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle broke record speeds over China on January 9 but refused to give details.
Former US Air Force officer Mark Stokes believes the vehicles are likely to be used in a space race defence.
He told US newspaper Washington Free Beacon: "A boost glide missile theoretically would be intended to counter existing mid-course missile defenses."
Stokes believes that hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) could reach Mach 12 speeds of up to 9,127 miles per hour which could break through any US missile defence.
MACH20: Some hypersonic fliers can get to speeds of up to 12,000mph [DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY]
Rick Fisher, an analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center said: “The beauty of the HGV is that it can perform hypersonic precision strikes while maintaining a relatively low altitude and flat trajectory, making it far less vulnerable to missile defenses."
Fisher added: “They [the Chinese government] are actively seeking global military power to challenge the United States, and it is not yet in any mood to talk, or engage in arms control, about it,”
Tensions have increased in the past two years with China, the US and Russia striving for more bigger, better defence technology.
The US discovered last year that China were building the hypersonic weapons, which according to the Chinese "pose a threat".
But the Western superpower have been creating missile aircrafts of their own of similar speeds.
Developers in the US are in the process of perfecting the Lockheed HTV-2, that can also travel at speeds of up to Mach 20, or 13,000 miles per hour.
Russia have also taken to creating new potentially dangerous equipment.
Defence experts in Moscow are working on the latest model of the RS-26 Rubezh.
Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said in June last year: “Neither current nor future American missile defense systems will be able to prevent that missile from hitting a target dead on.
"We are experiencing a revolution in military science."
source:
STAR WARS: China beat US to testing 9,127mph HYPERSONIC missile carrier | Latest News | Latest Breaking News | Daily Star. Simply The Best 7 Days A Week
GLIDER: The vehicles are designed to carry missiles and monitor military activity from space [IG]
The unmanned aircraft can therefore leave the Chinese capital Beijing and be hanging over Washington D.C in less than 45 minutes - raising worries in the White House.
With an advanced radar system that can target locations from the edge of space, this ultra-fast vehicle can manouvre itself anywhere around the globe.
The futuristic carrier, which can fly almost 20 times as fast as a jumbo jet, can hold ballistic missiles with hypersonic cruise missiles and smaller surveillance drones expected to be on board.
This latest design in foreign weapon intelligence comes as China refuses to take up arms talks with its economic rivals.
A Pentagon official confirmed a WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle broke record speeds over China on January 9 but refused to give details.
Former US Air Force officer Mark Stokes believes the vehicles are likely to be used in a space race defence.
He told US newspaper Washington Free Beacon: "A boost glide missile theoretically would be intended to counter existing mid-course missile defenses."
Stokes believes that hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) could reach Mach 12 speeds of up to 9,127 miles per hour which could break through any US missile defence.
MACH20: Some hypersonic fliers can get to speeds of up to 12,000mph [DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY]
Rick Fisher, an analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center said: “The beauty of the HGV is that it can perform hypersonic precision strikes while maintaining a relatively low altitude and flat trajectory, making it far less vulnerable to missile defenses."
Fisher added: “They [the Chinese government] are actively seeking global military power to challenge the United States, and it is not yet in any mood to talk, or engage in arms control, about it,”
Tensions have increased in the past two years with China, the US and Russia striving for more bigger, better defence technology.
The US discovered last year that China were building the hypersonic weapons, which according to the Chinese "pose a threat".
But the Western superpower have been creating missile aircrafts of their own of similar speeds.
Developers in the US are in the process of perfecting the Lockheed HTV-2, that can also travel at speeds of up to Mach 20, or 13,000 miles per hour.
Russia have also taken to creating new potentially dangerous equipment.
Defence experts in Moscow are working on the latest model of the RS-26 Rubezh.
Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said in June last year: “Neither current nor future American missile defense systems will be able to prevent that missile from hitting a target dead on.
"We are experiencing a revolution in military science."
source:
STAR WARS: China beat US to testing 9,127mph HYPERSONIC missile carrier | Latest News | Latest Breaking News | Daily Star. Simply The Best 7 Days A Week
I actually enjoy Chinese historical/fantasy dramas myself, mostly the ones that are based off of Louis Cha's books.
