BREAKING NEWS: The Pentagon is reporting that China just became the second nation to successfully test a missile delivery system that can penetrate the US Defense system carrying a nuclear warhead flying at Mach 10! The US response from Washington: We are aware of the test.... You will be hearing a lot from me on China in 2014. The South China Morning Post article states: The hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), dubbed the Wu-14 by the United States, was detected flying at 10 times the speed of sound during a test flight over China on Thursday, a Pentagon official told the Washington Free Beacon, an online newspaper. A Pentagon spokesman later confirmed the report but declined to provide details. We routinely monitor foreign defence activities and we are aware of the test, Marine Corpsc spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jeffery Pool told the Beacon. Chinese military experts yesterday hailed the test as a breakthrough. It makes China the second country after the US to have successfully tested a hypersonic delivery vehicle capable of carrying nuclear warheads at a speed above Mach 10.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:35:18 +0000