This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. The move by China seems to be something that the US has yet to match, with both nations developing highly sophisticated weapons as the race continues to dominate the Indo-Pacific region. The development of the weapon comes just four months after China denied reports that it has also tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, claiming that the projectile that had circled the entire planet was in fact a spacecraft. Researchers from the National University of Defence Technology confirmed the heating-seeking capabilities of a hypersonic missile, which can search for, identify and lock onto a target, based on its heat signature when flying at low altitudes where the air is thicker.
According to research cited by South China Morning PostChina Morning Post, the missiles could hone in on targets including moving vehicles on the street with unprecedented accuracy and speed. The professor said that the critical value of strategic depth in traditional warfare will no longer exist because of the use of effective hypersonic precision strike weapons. He ended up saying that all the critical political, economic and military assets of a country will be at risk. The first generation of hypersonic weapons was designed to penetrate missile defence systems and hit fixed targets on the ground at five times the speed of sound or faster. While China and Russia had deployed some high-tech nuclear weapons, a popular opinion was that these weapons had little practical value unless a country wanted to start a war. About 90 percent of all the aircraft it lost since the 1980s were shot down with heat-seeking missiles, and stealth fighters such as the F-22 could also be targets because their coating materials heat up easily in flight, according to the US Air Force. A Chinese military researcher said at an academic conference in 2020 that a ground-to- air hypersonic missile could catch up with and destroy an F-22 in a matter of seconds if it fired a missile or dropped a bomb from close range.
The country's hypersonic infrared missiles had already been used in a number of test flights work that won Professor Yi s team a top national award for military science and technology from the People's Liberation Army. The United States had previously been a world leader in heat sensing, according to Chinese scientists. In the 1980s and 90 s the US government and military invested enormous amounts of resources in the development of high-speed infrared homing technology that was used to develop missile defence systems such as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence THAAD system. These heat sensors worked only in thin air at high altitudes. Met Office weather warning: 'Severe' 75 mph gales threaten travel WEATHER BBC licence fee at risk new review in weeks REPORT Britons shamed for hoarding lateral flow tests REVEAL Last February, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency asked several defence contractors to develop infrared sensors for hypersonic missiles. The development of such missiles does not end with China and the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that he could strike targets in 5 minutes using the hypersonic arsenal he has, with both Russia and North Korea having developed this technology. With Russia and Ukraine on the verge of a conflict, President Joe Biden has held two rounds of talks with Mr Putin in an attempt to deflate the situation. Russia has called on the US and its allies to deny Ukraine's entry into NATO as a guarantee to defuse the crisis.