According to the “Financial Times”, Beijing reportedly in August to a missile shot from a hypersonic orbital glider, a machine likely to thwart the American warning systems
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China would have tested in early August the carrying of a nuclear weapon on a new hypersonic glider that was propelled in space and circulated in low orbit, said Saturday, October 16th the Financial Times, citing five sources close close of the file.
After turning around the planet, the craft would have plunged into the atmosphere, and the missile would have struck the Earth about thirty kilometers from his target. According to the FT, the event surprised US military intelligence, because it would testify to very rapid progress of China in the hypersonic field (speeds beyond Mach 5). Beijing had announced his first hypersonic glider test in the atmosphere in 2014.
Monday, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the event, evoking, a “routine test of a space vehicle to check the technology of reusable spacecraft”, in July. “This will certainly improve the quality of its nuclear deterrence to ensure that the United States abandon their idea of nuclear blackmail against China,” however commented Hu Xijin, a nationalist daily Global Times, validating the hypothesis of a prototype Military.
From the North Pole at the South Pole
Tir appears to be a fractional orbital bombardment system – fobs, according to the English acronym. “The fobs is less known than the ballistic intercontinental missile (ICBM) but it plays the same role: the intercontinental issue of nuclear weapons”, explains Joshua Pollack, from the James Martin Center on non-proliferation in Washington. Experts recall that the USSR had deployed such an orbital bombardment system in the 1970s. China had also launched a first program, it has canceled. An old concept so, which would have been given to the taste of the day.
The advantage of the fobs is that it could thwart the American advanced warning radars covering the North Pole, but also attack by the South Pole, less observed by the satellites, thanks to its great maneuverability. Such a machine “spends a time in orbit, but pioneered to the earth before making the full ninety minutes of the planet,” said Laura Greto, physicist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on his Twitter account. A flight of about seventy minutes. “One could also use an ICBM, which puts twenty to forty minutes to reach its target. The advantage here is to deceive the antimissile defenses” with a trajectory that will remain unpredictable.
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