Posted on 04/25/2019 2:47:26 AM PDT by Candor7
CHILLING photos have been leaked onto the internet which some fear show China's top secret 11,509mph hypersonic rocket system aimed at dodging US defences.
Images of the impressive Jia Geng No 1 rocket have emerged on Chinese media and could rock Donald Trump's defence chiefs at the Pentagon.
The pictures are said to show a prototype missile measuring 8.7 meters (28.5 feet) from tip to tail and weighing in at nearly four tonnes.
It appears equipped with supersonic combustion ramjets - or scramjets - which suck in air at supersonic speeds leading to a much higher velocity.
Scramjets can theoretically reach a maximum speed of up to Mach 15 - which is more than 15,000 mph.
The leaked reports claim the rocket can fly at an altitude of 15 miles.
It's also claimed the rocket was successfully launched at a desert area in Northwestern China," reports Popular Mechanics.
However, there are some conflicting posts which claim the rocket is actually a research project and even one which claims it is a harmless civilian system.
The images have emerged as China, Russia and the US are locked in an arms race to field the first hypersonic weapons ahead of future conflicts.
While many long range land attack missiles travels at subsonic speeds and attempt to fly below radar, hypersonic weapons would attempt to beat enemy defenses using pure speed.
The news comes after we reported how China could unleash the world's most powerful naval gun that fires missiles at seven times the speed of sound in just six years.
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Guess it ain’t to dam top secret if I just read it here on the free republic..
A laser beam is faster.
Quite :)
The Chinese are hell-bent on giving cockroaches their evolutionary chance at supremacy, but the cockroaches are already one up on them.
It says “Eat this round eye!”
LOL
Special thanks to bill and hillary
And....... Russia Shares a border.
Russia cannot and must not be removed from Chinese military planning
Harbor Freight display model.
China would have no need to invade and occupy the United States to control the United States. Economic and cyber warfare coupled with America's newly emboldened socialist fifth column might make it so without firing a shot.
As Sun Tzu said, and the Commies put into practice, “Look strong where you are weak.”
Those missiles are payload limited by treaty to 4 per warhead I believe.
If the leftists in America have their way,
we’ll be so socialist/communist China will
be an admirer, not an enemy.
Chicken soup
A Chinese entry at Bonneville salt flats?
The Thunderbirds had this in the 60's
Sure and I am absolutely sure that we abide by this agreement, really I am.
“Yes, we can”
Hello! This is a PR stunt to scare other countries. Remember that the Chinese have no issue killing leakers, spies, etc. So nice posed photos and oh we launched one and it ran perfect leaked?.
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