Chinese Hypersonic Developments (HGVs/HCMs)

ougoah

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The trios and gay guys of the internet feed us so little and then we have the Chinese government basically give nods to companies like Lingkong Tianxing. They represent a fraction of what sort of hypersonic capabilities Chinese top tier players have generations ago. Similar to all the private space companies in their earlier days basically being a shadow of past generation CALT capabilities.

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Any wonder why companies like Lingkong Tianxing have hypersonic aircraft and SSTO/TSTO projects years after the major state backed players flew theirs?

Right now Beijing LT is the only major private player in the field of hypersonic aircraft, SS/TSTO craft and now hypersonic missiles. At least, unlike UK's Reaction Engines' Skylon craft and SABRE engine project, Beijing LT actually produced many vehicles, flown actual test flights of full scale HGVs, hypersonic engine and now combined glider and engine power hypersonic missile. Reaction Engines' best effort accumulated in this ground test:

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I don't recall if SABRE was ever put into a flight test before Reaction Engines went bankrupt and into administration.

US private companies like Hermeus managed to do a test flight recently but it was just for taxiing and landing tests. It didn't even go supersonic and was using a low thrust GE turbofan from 1960s that doesn't touch more than mach 2.

Most of these types of companies from the West are actually there to scam investors with "presentations" of assembled items that is there to appeal to scientifically illiterate investors. Hermeus is a bit of a joke and Reaction Engines was far more promising as a company and SABRE was pursuing one of the known paths to hypersonic engines. At least Beijing Lingkong Tianxing delivers... perhaps with some watered down technology given to them by CASC, CASIC and other top tier players in the Chinese hypersonic space.
 

yugocrosrb95

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Hole Hole the Chengdu Gay Guy thinks pretty pessimistically of it

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对吧,这个精度比几十年前萨达姆手搓的增程飞毛腿还要差好几倍,属于是上战术核弹头都不一定能打掉目标的水平,买来只能放烟花玩儿,真正高精尖的东西还是不能信野路子的宣传//
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:我还真问过,之前圆周命中概率真的要算的话,可能在几公里水平,约等于无制导//
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:这个的技术水平跟航天科技航天科工的完全不在一个level上,而且业内口碑嘛……总的来说就是不入流水平,高估一下大概可以有哈工大朝鲜留学生手搓恩情高超的七成功力。他们家搞导弹在国内市场是永远没戏的,外贸市场应该也蹭不到饭吃。


Right, this precision is several times worse than Saddam's hand-kneaded extended-range Scud missiles from decades ago. It's at a level where even mounting a tactical nuclear warhead might not hit the target. Buying it would only be good for fireworks. You really can't trust the hype from these fringe outfits when it comes to cutting-edge technology. //@Echo in the Dunes: I actually looked into it—if you calculate the circular error probability, it's likely in the range of several kilometers. That's practically equivalent to an unguided missile. //@Zhang Zhidong, Pioneer of Westernization: Their technical level is nowhere near that of CASIC or CASTEC. And as for their industry reputation... let's just say it's subpar. At best, they might reach about 70% of the skill level of those North Korean students at HIT who hand-knead their “favor” missiles. Their missiles have no chance in the domestic market, and they likely won't get a bite in the export market either.
 

yugocrosrb95

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The CEP demonstrated looks to be better than Iranian MaRVs. This is China's worst vs Iran's best in a field that is at least 2 leagues above what Iran can do... controlled and maneuverable hypersonic glider, air breathing engine powered hypersonic engine, combined. This ain't sticking some basic fins to ballistic missile re-entry payloads and getting it to do a pre-programmed adjustment with very limited maneuverability.
Only someone uneducated and illiterate would post something like this that does not know much if anything on Iranian arsenal.
North Korean? Yeah without those Chinese wind tunnels, supercomputers and academies like Harbin Institute of Technology, they wouldn't be able to develop those HGVs.
We do not know what North Korea has and for that matter you implying/asserting Chinese assistance is bold without even considering presence of North Korean students and researchers in China certainly have achieved something that China could use or further iterate on.

Anyway North Korea has tested single stage hypersonic quasi-ballistic missiles since 2019 with Hwasong-11A aka KN-23 and in 2021 they began to test hypersonic glide vehicles my suggestion is for you to inform yourself about Iran and North Korea to avoid embarrassment.
BTW North Korea has not put forward any engine powered hypersonics at all, let alone manage to combine hypersonic engine with glider.
If you are so confident about what you say you would not move goal post in very same post.
 

ougoah

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Only someone uneducated and illiterate would post something like this that does not know much if anything on Iranian arsenal.

lol. We know you are the greatest defender of both North Korean and Iranian military capabilities online and always do so with insults. Your claim of me being illiterate just exposes the level of contribution and intelligence you offer.

Provide some education on Iranian missile capabilities for us then. My statement was that the very best of Iranian missile capability is in MaRV. In the hierarchy of missile tech tree, MaRV is a step above your usual ballistic missile but far below HGV and HCM. This company literally test flew a HGV that is powered with an engine. The engine is likely rotating detonation engine type since this company test flew an RDE in the past.

Now for Iran. The nation that brought us the Qaher 313 and presented it as 5th gen and then doubled down on presenting it on a toy "aircraft carrier". I am giving them credit by saying that Iranian MaRV tech is not at the same level as Chinese, Russian or American MaRV tech. Iran has a total of zero space based feed nodes. These MaRVs are preprogrammed turn capable to shake off the cheaper and more plentiful types of interceptors. Iran also has a total of zero HALE drones that can serve as a targeting, guidance or comms node. Iran has no telecommunication technology industry, not even a telecommunication academic institution. Even landline tech is not something Iran has mastered yet.

I've been kind to Iran. Iranians are very much capable of all of this and indeed have contributed to other nations. Just not the nation of Iran.

We do not know what North Korea has and for that matter you implying/asserting Chinese assistance is bold without even considering presence of North Korean students and researchers in China certainly have achieved something that China could use or further iterate on.

Chinese assistance is guaranteed! You pointed it out yourself here without fully realising. Guess what? Allowing those North Korean academics and engineers to study and use Chinese sourced academic material, equipment, labs and whatever facility is granted constitutes assistance and not just basic assistance. This is one step below holding their hand every step along the way of hypersonic weapon development and manufacturing.

This doesn't take anything away from what North Korea and for that matter, Iran have accomplished with or without assistance. I don't care to denigrade others for that. Everyone has stuff to learn from others. Previously I was merely stating that Lingkong Tianxing shouldn't be written off by others since they're at least flying stuff that major missile powers like Iran and North Korea have not done.

Anyway North Korea has tested single stage hypersonic quasi-ballistic missiles since 2019 with Hwasong-11A aka KN-23 and in 2021 they began to test hypersonic glide vehicles my suggestion is for you to inform yourself about Iran and North Korea to avoid embarrassment.

This stuff is true and completely irrelevant to the conversation. Are you suggesting North Korea's HGVs are completely self developed? Be clear with what youre stating because only that statement has bearing on the conversation and this would be a suggestion that North Korea is surpassed the US in HGV despite possessing a grand total of zero hypersonic wind tunnels and supercomputers for advanced CFD, the two main tools that you'd need to develop working HGVs.

If you are so confident about what you say you would not move goal post in very same post.

What moving goal posts? I stated a fact. North Korea does not possess a HCM that is also a glider (or any HCM for that matter) and North Korea does not possess a glider that is engine powered. It is a tautology.

I'm pointing out that a second/third rate Chinese startup company has managed to at least pull off something that North Korea and Iran, two very decent missile players have not managed to do - develop an engine powered glider aka gliding HCM.
 
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Mboxes

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.Interestingly, only a poor country like North Korea has a number of HGV systems close to China's. In Europe, we have hope; in France, through Ariengroupe, an HGV has been developed
 

yugocrosrb95

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lol. We know you are the greatest defender of both North Korean and Iranian military capabilities online and always do so with insults. Your claim of me being illiterate just exposes the level of contribution and intelligence you offer.
Me being supposed greatest defender of both North Korea and Iran is not an argument to be used against me and of course people like you are offended at supposed insults when described for what you are in consideration of what you have wrote and statements you have made in here, yet apparently my criticism of you apparently exposes me and not you asserting on topic you know next to nothing.

Provide some education on Iranian missile capabilities for us then.
You mean for me to provide education for you and people like you that liked your reply to me that exposes yourself and them for being uninformed and uneducated on subject of Iran and their capabilities, because you like them are oblivious of own willful ignorance when resorting to doubling down instead of doing some self reflection and have moment of actual self awareness for a change in your life.

My statement was that the very best of Iranian missile capability is in MaRV. In the hierarchy of missile tech tree, MaRV is a step above your usual ballistic missile but far below HGV and HCM. This company literally test flew a HGV that is powered with an engine. The engine is likely rotating detonation engine type since this company test flew an RDE in the past.
Your statement is not relevant to any degree when you do not know Iran has hypersonic glide vehicles as evident when you asserted that one private Chinese company is at least 2 leagues above them, which is nonsense only someone uninformed and uneducated would make while lacking basic literacy to not make assertions on topic while knowing next to nothing about it, like people like you are.

Iran has used Fattah-1 HGV and they used it against Israel along have in development Fattah-2, both have engine in HGV.

Now for Iran. The nation that brought us the Qaher 313 and presented it as 5th gen and then doubled down on presenting it on a toy "aircraft carrier".
Of course uneducated people such as you have to mention Qaher-313 as if it is some argument and not self exposure of being illiterate and since according to you IRIS Shahid Bagheri is toy "aircraft carrier" then will you go on to assert same for Chinese Type 076? Go on.
I am giving them credit by saying that Iranian MaRV tech is not at the same level as Chinese, Russian or American MaRV tech. Iran has a total of zero space based feed nodes. These MaRVs are preprogrammed turn capable to shake off the cheaper and more plentiful types of interceptors. Iran also has a total of zero HALE drones that can serve as a targeting, guidance or comms node. Iran has no telecommunication technology industry, not even a telecommunication academic institution. Even landline tech is not something Iran has mastered yet.
Except Iran does have high altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicles and your focus on maneuverable reentry vehicles to say Iranian technology is not on same level when they can do it, yet they do not because they want to have greater quantity since after all quantity has quality of its own in the end to a degree depending on whenever good balance between two is made that is worth it.

By simply pointing out what you do not know is enough to highlight how you know next to nothing on Iranian military capabilities just as those that liked your reply to me, people like you end up misinforming people about what Iran can do and what it has in arsenal thus in process in regards to that become detached from reality to point of delusions, which will cause disbelief and detachment from reality.

I've been kind to Iran. Iranians are very much capable of all of this and indeed have contributed to other nations. Just not the nation of Iran.
They are capable of this and have achieved some of it yet people like you are utterly ignorant and arrogant to even bother to do some basic research before discussing military and industrial capabilities of Iranian military industrial complex hence statements you made.

Chinese assistance is guaranteed! You pointed it out yourself here without fully realising. Guess what? Allowing those North Korean academics and engineers to study and use Chinese sourced academic material, equipment, labs and whatever facility is granted constitutes assistance and not just basic assistance. This is one step below holding their hand every step along the way of hypersonic weapon development and manufacturing.
I am not surprised for you to write any of this considering expectations you have set about yourself with your arrogance and ignorance,
What I have pointed out is not what you think I have pointed out which you believe I have not realized when that is not my point.
Statement I have made should have been obvious to you given context of discussion yet apparently you did not comprehend it.
What you said as an argument is applicable to Chinese themselves as they sent those too to North Korea if you did not know.
Also those only resumed this year as there was none during COVID-19 pandemic when exchanges were suspended by DPRK.

This doesn't take anything away from what North Korea and for that matter, Iran have accomplished with or without assistance. I don't care to denigrade others for that. Everyone has stuff to learn from others. Previously I was merely stating that Lingkong Tianxing shouldn't be written off by others since they're at least flying stuff that major missile powers like Iran and North Korea have not done.
If you do not care to denigrate then you would have not done so yet here we are seeing you doing so and some supporting such acts.

If you were merely stating what Lingkkong Tianxing should not be written off then you would not resort to denigrating Iran and for that matter North Korea in order to elevate it, such denigration only possible from position of utter ignorance and detachment from reality.

Both Iran and North Korea do receive assistance in a sense they assist each other because they have joint research and development.

This stuff is true and completely irrelevant to the conversation.
As is your mention of both Iran and North Korea to denigrate them in order to elevate a Chinese company unlike when I simply have pointed out comments by some Chinese netizens at how HGV vehicle is similar to North Korean HGV that was unveiled prior to them.

Are you suggesting North Korea's HGVs are completely self developed?
I gave you no context nor reason for you to ask this yet it makes sense for me for you make such question in consideration of your unawareness of being uninformed on North Korea and Iran since you do not know about their cooperation on missile technologies.

Be clear with what youre stating because only that statement has bearing on the conversation and this would be a suggestion that North Korea is surpassed the US in HGV despite possessing a grand total of zero hypersonic wind tunnels and supercomputers for advanced CFD, the two main tools that you'd need to develop working HGVs.
None of us in here knows whenever North Korea has in possession hypersonic wind tunnels and or supercomputers.

Former is not cutting edge technology as first hypersonic wind tunnels were in the US in late 1950's for testing hypersonic phenomena and reentry vehicles, as for supercomputers, I would not assume they have not in consideration scalability of present day computing.

What moving goal posts? I stated a fact. North Korea does not possess a HCM that is also a glider (or any HCM for that matter) and North Korea does not possess a glider that is engine powered. It is a tautology.
I never ever anywhere implied nor asserted that North Korea has hypersonic cruise missile or powered glider, what you stated is a fact yet such is a deflection which apparently you can not understand why since you are uninformed or are just being blatantly disingenuous.

Because of fact discussion was about unpowered HGV and not HCM or powered HGV hence moving of goal post when you came here to tout unpowered HGV of private Chinese company then made bold statement of them being 2 leagues or more better than Iran and North Korea only for you to mention HCM/powered HGV that is different from unpowered HGV yet you made such comparison.

I'm pointing out that a second/third rate Chinese startup company has managed to at least pull off something that North Korea and Iran, two very decent missile players have not managed to do - develop an engine powered glider aka gliding HCM.
You would have a point if that was true yet it is not as Iran has powered hypersonic glide vehicles.

As for North Korea, your statements imply and assert they have tried when there is no statement nor indication nor data to support it.
Because if they have tried and were unsuccessful such would have been certainly reported by South Korea, Japan and or the USA.
You are basically saying 2nd or 3rd tier private Chinese company did it thus better than North Korea, when latter did not even try.
 
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