2024-03-16 01:47:07
Beijing: China has the world’s largest stockpile of hypersonic missiles. The Washington Times quoted a senior US intelligence analyst as saying that China now boasts the world’s largest arsenal of hypersonic missiles, which can hit US targets with both nuclear and conventional warheads. He has warned America about the increasing power of China. Regarding Russia, the report said that Russia has deployed three types of ultra-high-speed weapons in Ukraine which can be equipped with nuclear or conventional weapons. Also the first hypersonic weapon has been used in combat against civilians in Ukraine.
According to the Washington Times, this comes after the claim that America has lagged behind its two most powerful rivals, Russia and China, in an important aspect of the modern arms race. The US has no plans to equip its planned future hypersonic missiles with nuclear warheads, Pentagon officials have told the House panel’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee, despite reports on China and Russia’s advanced dual-use missiles. Officials believe that such weapons would prove strategically unstable.
These missiles of China are very dangerous
It also emerged that the Pentagon is struggling to catch up with China and Russia in developing and deploying new high-speed missiles, which travel at Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound. Jeffrey McCormick, an intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center, said China has rapidly tested and built hypersonic missiles for both nuclear and conventional strike systems against the U.S. over the past two decades and now has the world’s most powerful missiles. Is leading.
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McCormick says Beijing’s deadliest hypersonic missile is the DF17, which was deployed in 2020. Which can travel at least 994 miles. This enables it to reach US military bases and fleet assets in the western Pacific. Which is definitely going to raise concerns for America.