Dave Majumdar, National Interest: Nuclear War: Could China's Mach 10 Hypersonic Weapons Unleash the Unthinkable?
The People’s Republic of China is continuing its quest to develop a new class of hypersonic weapons that could strike at the continental United States in less than 15 minutes from launch.
An operational long-range hypersonic weapon is likely years away, but China, the United States, Russia and other states are in a race to field such weapons. In the meantime, China is working on building the world’s fastest hypersonic wind tunnel to help its scientist develop this new class of weapon. The new facility should become operational by 2020.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- November 17, 2017
The Strange Reason North Korea's Mighty Missile Forces are Angry (At Kim Jong-un) -- National Interest
North Korean Missiles Still Lack Re-Entry Capability, Seoul Says -- Bloomberg
US, Japan Naval Forces Annual Exercise Seen as Signal to Pyongyang -- Voice of America
Mattis to Kim Jong-un: Stop Testing Nukes, Missiles and We'll Talk -- Military.com
Japan readies itself for tens of thousands of North Korean evacuees in preparation for war -- Daily Mail
Abe vows to beef up alliance with US amid N Korea threat -- Japan Today
Russia Rolls Out New Tu-160M2, But Are Moscow's Bomber Ambitions Realistic? -- The Warzone/The Drive
Russia Military's New Nuclear Warplane Will Fly Soon and That's 'Good News' for Putin -- Newsweek
Russia's Next Big Nuclear Missile Submarine Launches Tomorrow -- Scout
Zapad 2017: An Early Assessment -- Christian Novak, The Strategist
US official: If Turkey buys Russian systems, they can’t plug into NATO tech -- Defense News
Defying Russia, Serbia holds military drills with Americans -- FOX News/AP
Denmark, Eyeing Russia, OKs 20% Spending Boost; What It Means -- Breaking Defense
Army, Bell Test New "Stealthy" Helicopter for 2030 -- Scout Warrior
New DoD Interceptor Destroys Multiple ICBMs, Decoys at Once -- Warrior Scout
US Air Force Wants to Get New Nuclear Weapons Faster -- Defense One
Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones? -- Breaking Defense
Navy Launches New Attack Sub With Upgraded Missile Tubes -- Scout
Navy: ‘No Decisions Have Been Made’ In Reactivating Perry Frigates -- USNI News
Transportation Commander Calls for Improving Tanker Maintenance -- National Defense
16 high-tech F-35B stealth fighters now deployed to Japan -- Stars and Stripes
Air Force: Trump's Plan to Aid Pilot Shortage Will Not Work -- Military.com/FOX News
DARPA aims to ‘disrupt’ national security space business -- Space News
Exclusive: Interview with Gen. Robin Rand, Head of Air Force Global Strike Command -- National Defense
The new proposed defense budget is trying to fix one of the military’s biggest problems -- Business Insider
McCain: Military personnel's 100-hour work weeks must stop -- Military Times
Over 70,000 military sexual assaults took place last year -- Congress must take action -- FOX News
Making munitions safe: How can we stop American bullets, bombs and missiles from killing US troops? -- FOX News
5 Things You Didn't Know the Air Force Invented -- Popular Mechanics
Balancing China: How the United States and Its Partners Can Check Chinese Naval Expansion -- Michael Beckley, War On The Rocks
US Forces Won’t Grow Much Despite Hill & Trump Rhetoric -- Mark Cancian, Breaking Defense
The Pentagon Has Avoided Audit For 27 Years: Not sure where your tax dollars are going? Nobody really is. -- Michael D. Ostrolenk, American Conservative
Why Fallujah Is One of the Marine Corps' Most Legendary Battles -- Donald Baker, We Are The Mighty
