BEIJING – China recently tested its hypersonic weapon that has its speed 10times that of sound and is able to hit anything across the globe within anhour.
The country tested its new DF-17 ballistic missile that is armed withhypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) and can fly with 10 times the speed of soundalong with striking any target across the globe within an hour.
Anonymous source in the United States government said that recentintelligent reports on The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) ofChina carried out two successful tests of HGVs. The weapons are fullyequipped with missiles that can mark in between the range of 1800km and2500km, as per a report from The Diplomat.
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The HGV is one of the most powerful and developed technological weapon. Asper International Business Times, these DF-17 vehicles would probably beoperational by 2020. These weapons could be used for delivering missilesand nuclear weapons to distant targets across the globe along withconventional payload. It can achieve speed up to 7,680 miles per hour (10times the speed of sound).
The HGVs fly under the normal missile radars and much slower than them whendescending, making itself difficult to scan and defend. Apart from China,USA and Russia are also said to be developing a hypersonic glidertechnology but neither country has conducted test flights.