Revealed: China 'has tested TWO hypersonic orbital nukes capable of breaching missile defences' as panicked analysts say it 'defies the laws of physics' and is unlike any weapon the US has

dailymail.co.uk ^ | Octobr 21, 2021 | Chris Pleasance

[Thunder90]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

[Kevmo]

That’s Russian, not Chinese. And it’s subsonic, not hypersonic. From the link you provided:

the Burevestnik is a “sub-sonic nuclear-powered cruise missile system...

one of the secondary links from that article was about Nuclear Thermal Rockets, which never mentions any Chinese developments
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket

[Kevmo]

Speed of light, ‘C’, is 186thousand miles per SECOND, not miles per hour. It’s about 670MILLION miles per hour.

[Kevmo]

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[Cen-Tejas]

Thanks for the correction. That’s faster than 3,800 mph isn’t it? s/

[Kevmo]

Yes, much faster.

But targeting anything with a laser from thousands of miles away, even in space, is quite difficult. That was one of the things that killed the Strategic Defense Initiative.