China carried out a second test of what is believed to be a hypersonic orbital missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead earlier this year, intelligence sources have claimed.
The new test is believed to have taken place on August 13 and involved a similar 'hypersonic glide vehicle' to one launched into space on board a Long March rocket back in July, which was first reported earlier this week.
Beijing has acknowledged one of the tests, claiming it launched a 'peaceful' civilian spacecraft. But analysts believe the craft can actually be tipped with a nuclear warhead which would be able to evade missile defences.
Even government scientists are struggling to work out exactly what the new craft is capable of, with one source telling the Financial Times that it appears to 'defy the laws of physics' and is unlike any technology the US has.
The White House has refused to comment, while the US Department of Defense has refused to confirm or deny the existence of any hypersonic weapons tests.
China is thought to have carried out two tests of a hypersonic orbital nuke - the first on July 27 and the second on August 13 this year. Observers believe the 'weapon' is an updated version of a Soviet concept called a 'Fractional Orbital Bombardment System', or FOBS. It is designed to evade powerful US radar systems and anti-missile defences designed to shoot down traditional ICBMs by flying in low-Earth orbit, making it harder to spot, track and destroy
The first test was disclosed earlier this week, when the FT quoted five intelligence sources who said that China had tested what appeared to be an orbital hypersonic nuclear missile some time in early or mid-August.
Observers say the weapon appears to be an update of Cold War-era Soviet technology called a 'Fractional Orbital Bombardment System' - or FOBS.
Soviets developed the technology to get around powerful US radar arrays designed to detect the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) tipped with nukes, and defence systems designed to shoot them down.
FOBS works by putting the nuclear warheads into a low-Earth orbit, allowing them to circle the globe and manoeuvre in flight before coming down on their targets.
This makes the warheads harder to detect, track and destroy than those carried on board ICBMs.
China appears to have updated the concept by fitting the nuclear warhead on to a 'hypersonic glide vehicle', which is designed to travel faster and manoeuvre easier - making it even harder to stop.
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OK, so don't intercept them, just laser them into oblivion! Look, China makes everything with faults, find the weakness, and zap! IMO, for what money in the billions our Defense Program gets, we have a better toy, like 20 years ahead big toy, and just maybe for once, we are keeping our big mouths shut about it?
Still think those dams need to go bye, bye, if CCP keep their lip up, fed up with little men taunting their big toys, CCP sent germ warfare, they need to act bullish, right?
Bet we have capabilities to take over control of their ICBM's and this hyper-sonic junk, sending it right back to them up their buttocks. Don't give them power they really don't have, they aren't anything powerful unless underhanded evil acts of cowardly deeds committed like Covid's, stealing secrets,(wrong ones sometimes betcha) etc., and of course, they control our Traitor's, who IMO, will be taken care of in the very near future, if some haven't already, IMO! Oh and their island, Subs, are like toys to target at a carnival; No one here cares about their show of stupidity right now, in my opinion! Western Civilization did deals with a communist country, first stupid mistake, and made them the money to make
their toys; China Sea might eat them up if they keep acting like the bullies they have been, IMO! Chinese people are fine, it's the Communist Party BS that sits in our crawl.
So no we don't want blackmailing bullying CCP to have publicity, they are ungrateful with all the money USA made them IMO, and our values clashed from the beginning IMO! But yep, we had just as greedy folks here that set this whole thing up, and look at the mess now??? Propaganda is a learned tool, USA's little grasshopper's doing it now, what fools! Nano-chip that. Such beauty everywhere in the world and we have few bad apples that try to spoil it, but they won't last, they come, and they go, ask Hitler?
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