‘Dark Eagle has landed’ proclaimed The Sun, originally reporting that the new US missiles could “blitz Russia” in just six minutes – before revising that to “21 minutes and 30 seconds” – along with a graphic showing Moscow being vaporized in a mushroom cloud. The US has in fact reactivated …
Read More »Better pronoun usage won’t help US counter hypersonic missiles, congressman says, urging intelligence to focus on security threats
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday on diversity in the security agencies, the committee’s ranking member cautioned that the “utterly destructive” politicization of America’s national security apparatus had “severely eroded trust” in its institutions and distracted from its mission to counter the “international threat matrix.” Noting that this “tendency” …
Read More »A ‘Sputnik moment’? Milley hints China’s hypersonic weapons test has left US in arms-race dust
“What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system. And it is very concerning,” Milley said in an interview on Bloomberg TV’s David Rubenstein Show on Wednesday. “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it’s very close to …
Read More »US hypersonic weapon test derailed by rocket failure – reports
The Pentagon’s attempted test launch of a hypersonic weapon suffered a “setback” when a booster rocket carrying the weapon failed to lift off, according to people with knowledge of the test launch. The test was supposed to “validate aspects of one of the Pentagon’s hypersonic glide vehicles in development,” according …
Read More »US Army and Navy successfully test three hypersonic weapon prototypes – Pentagon
Conducted at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the tests were aimed at helping “inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) offensive hypersonic strike,” according to a Thursday statement from the Pentagon. The tests took place on the same …
Read More »Russia fires missile, capable of carrying hypersonic warheads, from Europe to Asia in test of nuclear submarine in Far North
On Thursday, officials revealed that the Knyaz Oleg submarine had completed its final stage of technical assessments after launching a Bulava missile. The rocket took off from the White Sea, an inland body of water close to Scandinavia, and was confirmed to have struck ground at the Kura firing range …
Read More »Biden ‘concerned’ over rumored Chinese hypersonic missiles that caught US by surprise
As Biden traveled to Pennsylvania on Wednesday, reporters asked him if he was concerned about Chinese hypersonic missiles. “Yes,” the president replied. Earlier in the day, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the US has raised concerns about the technology with China through “diplomatic channels,” without offering specifics. Washington’s …
Read More »Beijing’s recent hypersonic missile test launch may have just rendered all Washington’s defense systems useless
Together, Russia and China have just made moot trillions of dollars in US defense spending. A report published in the Financial Times declared that, sometime in August 2021, China had conducted a test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle that flew through low-orbit space, circling the globe before deorbiting and heading …
Read More »Washington’s hysteria about Chinese hypersonic missile threat is just an excuse for its own military expansion, says Beijing
Speaking on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Beijing firmly opposed the US continuously exaggerating the “China threat theory.” He stated that Beijing’s only interest was self-defense, and claimed it would not engage in a nuclear arms race with any country. “China’s development of necessary military capabilities is …
Read More »China’s hypersonic missile test should serve as a serious warning to Washington
Over the weekend, a report appeared in the Financial Times – via a leak from an anonymous US official – which claimed that in August, China had tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile which had orbited the entire world. The article described US intelligence as saying the test showed China had …
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