[Joe Brower]

Ping.

[Colehill1999]

big whoop. its already as obsolete as the shuttle. over half will fail to launch or break up on reentry. another 30% will fail to hit their target. leaves us with 20% we can easily knock out with our new ship based lasers.

China is “innovating” thirty years in the past. The U.S. is innovating 30 years in the future.

[StoneWall Brigade]

China’s rise is becoming more freighting by the day.

[Mariner]

Last year the DF-21 wa all the rage. Now we know it can be defeated with existing systems.

Now the big deal is the WU-14.

Can anyone explain to me why it's launch vehicle cannot be defeated at apogee?

I sometimes think Lockheed and Boeing write many of these articles about the emerging Chinese "parity".

Want to know what a REAL Hypersonic Strike Vehicle looks like? Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveRider

The X-51 can be deployed like a standoff Cruise Missile from a mid-sized platform.

[lacrew]

Around 15 years ago I remember liberals chortling at any suggestion that Slick Willy sold access to missile technology in exchange for foreign campaign donations.

[raptor22]

CHINA SPACE WEAPONS PING

[raptor22]

CHINA SPACE WEAPONS PING

[clearcarbon]

I wonder how well hypersonic missiles are able to do midflight course corrections to evade projectiles from rail guns.

[Marko413]

The US Navy must have been way ahead of this breaking news from China because CNN just now released this article to counter it: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/11/tech/innovation/navy-laser-weapon/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

I had heard of the navy using lasers in tests, but nothing that had gone official yet.