[Spooky]

US intelligence and military officials were reportedly left stunned after China launched a rocket in space carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle which circled the globe before before speeding towards its target.

The nuke-capable missile missed its target by about two-dozen miles when it was secretly launched in August.

But the chilling test has alarmed US officials and shows how China has made astonishing progress on the development of its hypersonic weapons.

A hypersonic missile travels five times faster than the speed of sound and can reach distances of up to 1,500 miles, with Russia using the technology to build cutting-edge missiles in recent years.

A source told the Financial Times: "We have no idea how they did this."

The missile is understood to have been launched on a Long March rocket - which is used for China's space programme.

Taylor Fravel, an expert on Chinese nuclear weapons policy, said a hypersonic glide vehicle armed with a nuclear warhead could help China "negate" US missile defence systems.

Fravel said: "Hypersonic glide vehicles... fly at lower trajectories and can manoeuvre in flight, which makes them hard to track and destroy."

He warned it would be "destabilising" if China fully developed and deployed such a weapon.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16445132/c...ile-space/

[Boudica]

This is an ongoing fear as developing nations build and develop more weapons to compete with developed nations. There's nothing we can realistically do to stop them.

Although, the speed would suggest bringing in outside help or being sold tech? Am I overthinking it?