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2021-10-18 China-Japan-Koreas

China's frightening test of new hypersonic weapon: ‘We have no idea how they did this'

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Posted by 746 2021-10-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
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#1 It's not a very big step up from the existing X-37B to something that can dispense multiple hypersonic glide vehicles from orbit and return to Earth to be re-loaded. As Dr. Strangelove said, "It requires only the will to do so."

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-18 06:02|| 2021-10-18 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 China denies testing nuclear-capable hypersonic missile

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-18 07:36|| 2021-10-18 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 They've been in the rocket business a very long time.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-18 08:37|| 2021-10-18 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 We could have built a fractional orbit bombardment system fifty years ago. Just about anyone with a large enough orbital booster could.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-10-18 09:51|| 2021-10-18 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Just like we could have done all the stuff Elon Musk is doing back in the nineties. We just chose to have our space programs run by vegan cat sitters instead.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-10-18 09:53|| 2021-10-18 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ I nominate that comment for the Monday "gonna leave a mark" award.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-18 09:57|| 2021-10-18 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #5: Musk hails from the wrong country. Recognizing his philanthropy, entrepreneurial spirit, and genius would be tantamount to racism.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-18 10:03|| 2021-10-18 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Our "intelligence" community seems to miss alot. I seem to recall they missed 9/11 too.

Posted by Chris 2021-10-18 10:25|| 2021-10-18 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Ah, but they did manufacture the WMD story.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-18 11:04|| 2021-10-18 11:04|| Front Page Top

#10 and Russiagate

Posted by bman 2021-10-18 12:13|| 2021-10-18 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 and Huntergate

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-18 12:30|| 2021-10-18 12:30|| Front Page Top

#12 There aren't any eyes in China because the CIA deliberately used inferior encryption on its servers, believing China wasn't a threat and it could use the same sort of security used against Middle East states.

Whoopsie! China broke in, got the names of all the CIA's agents, and executed them one by one. Some in front of their horrified co-workers. How are they gonna recruit more spies, now that everyone knows what happens to traitors, and how easy it is to get caught because the CIA doesn't take the safety of its agents seriously?

Good old CIA. Hey, at least they're good at false flag operations that start wars, eh?

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-18 13:01|| 2021-10-18 13:01|| Front Page Top

#13 #8 Our "intelligence" community seems to miss alot. I seem to recall they missed 9/11 too.

To be fair, they also missed the collapse of the Soviet Union. But that is kinda understandable because not only is Russia a foreign country but their alphabet has all those weird-ass letters.

I'm sure our intelligence community has all sorts of notable successes, but we can't notice them because they are all secret and stuff.

Posted by SteveS 2021-10-18 13:08|| 2021-10-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Why be fair? With the resources they have they shouldn't miss too much. I'm sure they are monitoring us as we reply to each other though.

Posted by Chris 2021-10-18 13:28|| 2021-10-18 13:28|| Front Page Top

#15 In the 50's Gen McArthur was asked, after Chosin, what should be our next step. Bomb Peking while we can. tsk, tsk, effing war-monger.

Posted by irish rage boy 2021-10-18 16:47|| 2021-10-18 16:47|| Front Page Top

#16 The test has raised new questions about why the US often underestimated China’s military modernisation.

"We have no idea how they did this," said a fourth person.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1449936109463539713

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-18 16:53|| 2021-10-18 16:53|| Front Page Top

#17 There was an unclassified report to Congress a few months ago on this subject.

It indicated great interest by Russia and China but no prediction of when they would test prototypes.

As I recall, the US has also tested components of a hypersonic weapon system.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-10-18 18:16|| 2021-10-18 18:16|| Front Page Top

#18 Hey, don't be so rough on Elon Musk. Technically speaking, he is an "African American".

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2021-10-18 18:55|| 2021-10-18 18:55|| Front Page Top

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