The US military do not believe that the hypersonic weapon developed by Pyongyan presents a threat to the United States, stated at a briefing in the Pentagon chapter of the United States Air Force Space Defense Command (NORAD) General US Air Force Glen Wang Herk after testing in the DPRK hypersonic rockets. His words brings “Interfax”.
“I understand that the intersecydom is still assessed by the DPRK statements about the tests of a hypersonic rocket … according to my estimates, hypersonic weapons, which, according to the North Road, was tested there, there will be no threat to the United States,” Van Hurt said.
On September 28, a new ballistic missile with a hypersonic combat unit was held in the DPRK, which is similar to the combat part of the Pershing-2 rocket. In the Hwasong-8 rocket, for the first time in North Korea, a new fuel storage technology and a managed planning hypersonic combat part were applied.
In the report of the Central Telegraph Agency, the DPRK (CAC) states that this rocket has become the first North Korea, in which ampulized storage of liquid fuel applied. This technology provides long-term rocket content on combat duty.