China’s hypersonic weapons program continues to surge ahead, with the unveiling of the GDF-600 hypersonic glide vehicle at the Zhuhai Air Show. This unpowered glide vehicle can carry up to 11,000 pounds of armaments, including drones, loitering munitions, and subsonic missiles, while reaching speeds of Mach 7.
  • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    China is[undoubtedly ahead of the Americans in developing hypersonic weapons technology (as are the Russians). That’s a sad state of affairs, considering that the United States has been researching these weapons for decades.

    Lmao what an ice cold bucket of water to start with. I don’t know if these people have a necessity to paint the US as a clumsy, pitiful country like a white guy in an informercial or if they really think whatever they write

    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      Did you see the byline?

      Brandon J. Weichert, a National Interest national security analyst, is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, the Asia Times, and The-Pipeline. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life, and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy. His next book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine, is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

      This guy’s whole thing is fearmongering about the Fall of The West to get even more military industrial complex funding.