[Blood of Tyrants]

Looks like a rocket to me, too.

[Steely Tom]

It looks amazingly un-airplane-like and remarkably rocket-like. How can CNN tell the difference?

Looks like a rocket to me, too.

What you're seeing there is just the outer shell of the boost rocket. The hypersonic aircraft (if it exists) is under the nosecone of the rocket.

I'm guessing that China isn't showing the actual aircraft because either (a) it looks exactly like ours, although it may be somewhat smaller, and is thereby embarrassing, or (b) it's obviously phony, like that stupid "stealth fighter jet" that Iran demonstrated a few years ago, that was so tiny that the human "pilot" couldn't fit into the cockpit.