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According to reports from Chinese media, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) may have set up the first-ever military command for hypersonic weapons and other near-space military operations.
Thus goes the central premise of deterrence theory, which says it is the credible threat of aggression — not the use of aggression — that will ensure states avoid war. This theory has dominated much of America’s strategic thinking over the past 50-plus years, but new technologies and new adversaries threaten to upend the status quo. For the first time, China has started to outpace the U.S. in critical weapons programs — the country developed a new type of weapon called a hypersonic glide vehicle as early as 2014, which can strike Taipei and the Taiwan Strait in ab...
The Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron vehicle is a modified version of Rocket Lab’s Electron and is designed to support high-speed testing.
A top Pentagon official said additive manufacturing can be used to rapidly fix aircraft bird strike damage, all the way to making complex hypersonic parts.
America's hypersonic missile has failed to launch. Again. Is time running out?