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Hypervelocity missile breakthrough makes China the world leader in new weaponry
CHINA has just taken a huge step ahead of the United States in military technology, launching the first hypersonic missile.
Jamie Seidel
THE world has just entered a new phase of warfare.
It’s one where no potential target is safe.
It’s one where reaction times are miniscule.
It’s one where the United States not longer holds the technical lead.
China has just successfully conducted flight tests of the production model of what is called the DF-17 ballistic missile. What makes this weapon different to other ballistic missiles is that it is designed to carry what is known as a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV).
“Hypersonic missiles are a new class of threat because they are capable both of manoeuvring and of flying faster than 5000 kilometres per hour, which would enable such missiles to penetrate most missile defences and to further compress the timelines for response by a nation under attack,” a
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Images released by Chinese state-run media show what appear to be a hypervelocity glide vehicles, similar to two successfully tested by new intercontinental ballistic missiles in November.Source:Supplied
These gliders are finely engineered, arrow-shaped craft capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads at incredible speeds. They travel so fast through the atmosphere (greater than 5000km/h) they must be built to withstand temperatures that would melt meteors, and must be engineered perfectly to avoid tumbling wildly out of control.
But not only can they travel unbelievably fast, they may also be able to guide themselves towards an intended target.
This renders almost all current missile defence systems obsolete.
A Chinese state-media image representing its anti-ship Ballistic Missiles in action.Source:Supplied
as confirming the recent test launch of two of the missiles — one on November 1, and another on November 15.
“The missile is explicitly designed for operational HGV implementation and not as a test bed,” the source told The Diplomat. It was “the first HGV test in the world using a system intended to be fielded operationally”.
The tests had been timed shortly after the Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress in October where President Xi Jinping cemented his hold on power.
An artist's impression by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) showing its Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 being deployed from an ICBM.Source:AP
LEAPING AHEAD
The first missile was reportedly launched from the Jiuquan Space Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. The DF-17 ballistic missile boosted the glide vehicle to hypersonic speeds during its re-entry phase. This then detached before the unpowered glider used its momentum and height to travel the remainder of the 1400km to a test range in Xinjian Privince in just 11 minutes before it struck within meters of its target.
US intelligence agencies reportedly believe the ballistic missile / hypervelocity glider combination has a maximum range of between 1800 and 2500km. They expect fully operational examples to be deployed by 2020.
It marks the end of a successful experimentation program which began in 2014. China had conducted seven known hypersonic vehicle tests before November.
An image released by Chinese state-run media showing what appears to be a hypervelocity glide vehicle undergoing testing in a wind tunnel.Source:Supplied
In October, images of what Beijing-controlled state media described as a hypersonic glide vehicles were released for the first time. It is not known if any represent the glider carried by the new DF-17 ballistic missile, or earlier test craft.
China is by no means the only nation striving to achieve a functional and reliable hypervelocity missile. Russia has been working on its 3M22 Zircon, planning to deploy the weapon system aboard two of its enormous battlecruisers — the Pyotr Velikyi and Admiral Nakhimov — and its next-generations of submarine.
The United States has also been working on its own designs, as has Australia.
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But many developmental tests in recent years by the US, Russia and other nations have ended in failure.
Only China appears to have reached the point of mass producing such a weapon.
