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“Astounding Progress” – China Tested Hypersonic Weapon That Flew Around The World
Nation And State ^ | 10-17-2021

Posted on 10/17/2021 5:56:00 PM PDT by blam

In Joe Biden’s America, a U.S. Army Major General took to Twitter to complain about the Army’s policy on French manicures. At the same time, reports surface the Chinese are busy launching a hypersonic weapon that flies around the world.

Major General Jo Clyborne’s first-world problems are no place for Twitter as the U.S. continues to lose the hypersonic race against China.

Chinese military vs US military pic.twitter.com/Hodac2OKBU

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 16, 2021

The world learned on Saturday evening that China had made “astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than U.S. officials realized,” sources told F.T.

In August, the Chinese military launched a rocket that catapulted a hypersonic glide vehicle into low-Earth-orbit. It flew around the world before missing its target by only two dozen miles, three sources said.

The latest test raises an abundance of questions about China’s rapid military modernization, which is beating the U.S. in the hypersonic weapons race.

“We have no idea how they did this,” a fourth source said, referring to China’s ability to fly a hypersonic glide vehicle across the world.

Two sources said that China could, in theory, fly the weapon over the South Pole, a region that U.S. missile defense systems lack coverage.

John Kirby, the press secretary for the Department of Defense, said the Pentagon views China as a great challenger as both countries race towards developing and fielding hypersonic weapons that fly multiple times faster than sound.

“We have made clear our concerns about the military capabilities China continues to pursue, capabilities that only increase tensions in the region and beyond,” Kirby said.

But a spokesman for China, Liu Pengyu, said Beijing has no interest in global domination.

“We are not at all interested in having an arms race with other countries,” Liu said.

“In contrast, the U.S. has in recent years been fabricating excuses like ‘the China threat’ to justify its arms expansion and development of hypersonic weapons. This has directly intensified the arms race in this category and severely undermined global strategic stability.”

As hypersonic weapons are heralded as the next game-changing weapon for militaries worldwide, China’s latest test suggests the U.S. is losing the hypersonic race, which may explain why Pentagon Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin previously said that developing hypersonic capabilities was “the highest technical priority,” according to Defense News.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; hypersonic; missile; tests
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1 posted on 10/17/2021 5:56:00 PM PDT by blam
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a hypersonic glide vehicle into low-Earth-orbit

Low earth obit is Mach 25, in a vacuum no aerodynamic resistance.

It only counts in air.

What they have is a fast re-entry vehicle...

2 posted on 10/17/2021 6:02:27 PM PDT by null and void (LGBTQ = Let's Get Biden To Quit, FORK/N'A = First Uttery Cancel Kamala/Nancy Axed)
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To: blam

I remember when China couldn’t get a rocket off the ground. That was until Bill Clinton cleared the way.


3 posted on 10/17/2021 6:04:37 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: null and void

Whatever, they have a weaponized space station plan, no doubt, they can drop a nuke down our chimney anytime they want.

High ground rules


4 posted on 10/17/2021 6:05:39 PM PDT by baclava
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To: blam

Woke US Military vs Winners - bump for later....


5 posted on 10/17/2021 6:08:22 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: blam

I haven’t seen mention of how long it took to circle the globe.


6 posted on 10/17/2021 6:13:44 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: blam

The Biden Admin will show them they’ve started the New Green Deal and about to flush billions in one flush


7 posted on 10/17/2021 6:15:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: blam

This must be fake news. General Milley assured us that he and his ‘equal’ in China constantly communicated with each other to reassure each other.

Wait..Milley didn’t get a phone call? No email? Telegram? tiktok? Nothing at all?


8 posted on 10/17/2021 6:16:46 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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I seem to recall the USAF accomplishing this by accident about 1957. Yeah, I’m that old. It was some sort of air-launched missile.

Today it would be an ideal EMP delivery weapon.

I won’t believe the US hasn’t got the capability already, and isn’t broadcasting the fact.


9 posted on 10/17/2021 6:17:55 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: blam
America Last.

('rat mantra)

10 posted on 10/17/2021 6:21:29 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: blam

What is different about this rocket from any other? It would seem to me they are all hypersonic and any rocket that can carry a weather satellite can carry a nuke. I like fear porn as much as the next guy but it has to at least be real fear.


11 posted on 10/17/2021 6:24:53 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To some of these morons, Trump was a bigger threat than the Chicoms. Or the Muslims. Or illegal invaders.

A special kind of stupid.

12 posted on 10/17/2021 6:36:54 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Dutch Boy

Yep. The Clintons sold us down the river for bargain basement prices.

Indeed, the same could be said of the rest of the treasonous folks in the DNC who’ve steadily sold us out for what was probably a pittance.

That Fauci would illegally fund bioweapon research in Communist China is just proof of who the Deep State doesn’t consider the enemy to be and suggest who they really do consider to be the enemy (Americans).


13 posted on 10/17/2021 6:38:01 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

re: “Today it would be an ideal EMP delivery weapon.”

“EMP”, overblown on the order of Covid-19 as it stands ...


14 posted on 10/17/2021 6:40:57 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: blam

For more commentary:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4004432/posts

👍🚀


15 posted on 10/17/2021 6:44:49 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

All were taken out of service by 1988 and Congress did not approve a replacement. The X-37 is the closest we have and that was a NASA program to start.

We do NOT have that capability other than by strapping weapons to the X-37, and we’ve made.... two.


16 posted on 10/17/2021 7:02:59 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

The major difference is broad crossrange maneuverability. A ballistic missile warhead is really just that, ballistic. You can generally tell where it’s going from the moment it comes over your radar horizon - it’s like throwing a tennis ball, its ability to change course is relatively limited after warhead separation. A hypersonic glide vehicle is more like a space shuttle in terms of ability to maneuver on the way down, if not better. It can also have a very nasty terminal low altitude final delivery profile - running Mach 3+ on the deck.


17 posted on 10/17/2021 7:06:33 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: blam

Not my field of expertise .
But is this a way they can take out our carriers?


18 posted on 10/17/2021 7:11:09 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton's )
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To: Dutch Boy

The “thousand talents program” has been a huge success.


19 posted on 10/17/2021 7:15:47 PM PDT by nascarnation
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“The “thousand talents program” has been a huge success”

Well, our thousand talents program has been a big success also…we have the best LGBTQ studies anywhere.


20 posted on 10/17/2021 7:24:10 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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