{"id":12643,"date":"2014-01-17T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12643"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:10:58","slug":"china-tests-hypersonic-missile-defense-buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12643","title":{"rendered":"China tests hypersonic missile defense buster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chinaglide\"<\/a>China has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of penetrating US missile defense system and delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds, Pentagon officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n

The new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), dubbed the WU-14 was allegedly spotted flying at record-breaking speeds during a flight test over China on January 9, an anonymous Pentagon official told the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n

The new weapon delivery system is reportedly designed to be launched as the final stage of China\u2019s intercontinental ballistic missile, which would approach its target at a velocity of up to 10 times the speed of sound. Hypersonic speed range lies between Mach 5 and Mach 10, or 3,840 to 7,680 miles per hour.<\/p>\n

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the Chinese test launch but declined to provide details.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe routinely monitor foreign defense activities and we are aware of this test,\u201d Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool, a Marine Corps spokesman, told the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, we don\u2019t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign weapon systems,\u201d Pool said in a statement. \u201cWe encourage greater transparency regarding their defense investments and objectives to avoid miscalculation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Hypersonic vehicles, which are also being designed by the US, India and Russia, are developed for precise targeting, rapid delivery of weapons, and are being tested to outmaneuver hostile missiles and space defenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cA boost glide missile theoretically would be intended to counter existing mid-course missile defenses,\u201d Mark Stokes, a former US Air Force officer told the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n

Strokes explained that China is developing two hypersonic flight vehicle programs \u2013 one believed to be of a post-boost vehicle designed to be deployed from a missile that pursues its target from near space, or some 62 miles from earth. Basing his hypothesis on emerging reports from China, Stokes believes that hypersonic glide vehicles could reach Mach 12 speeds of up to 9,127 miles per hour, potentially compromising a US missile defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Rick Fisher, an analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the integration of strategic analysis and planning into technical research, China\u2019s pursuit of hypersonic and high-precision weaponry promises to be faster and more focused than that associated with its previous [anti-satellite] and [ballistic missile defense] related research and programs,\u201d Lora Saalman, a specialist on Chinese strategic systems with the Carnegie Endowment Saalman said in an email to the publication. \u201cThis recent test is a manifestation of this trend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese are \u201cactively 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,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n

In May, the Pentagon\u2019s assessment of Chinese capabilities suggested that China built the world\u2019s largest shockwave hypersonic wind tunnel capable of generating test flying conditions of up to Mach 9 speeds. – RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of penetrating US missile defense system and delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds, Pentagon officials have confirmed. The new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), dubbed the WU-14 was allegedly spotted flying at record-breaking speeds during a flight test over China on January 9, an … Continue reading “China tests hypersonic missile defense buster”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[144,8043,8046,8045,8044],"class_list":["post-12643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-china","tag-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-hgv","tag-hypersonic-vehicles","tag-intercontinental-ballistic-missile","tag-penetrating-us-missile-defense-system"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/chinaglide.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12645,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions\/12645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}