Time： 2024-08-18  韦克威科技

China's hypersonic nuclear missile

According to an exclusive report published by the Financial Times on the 16th of this month, China test fired a hypersonic missile in August this year. According to the media's description, this test was different from previous tests. After entering orbit, the missile underwent a "global flight" before returning to the atmosphere to enter the "hypersonic gliding" stage. However, the warhead ultimately hit the target more than 30 kilometers away from its destination.

The Financial Times focused on describing the power contained in this unknown new weapon, stating that all existing anti missile and early warning systems are unable to effectively respond. After publishing this article full of "China threat theory", the Financial Times also interviewed many American military experts, further highlighting the tense atmosphere of "China's missile technology disrupting strategic stability".

For this "exclusive report" by British media, military experts in China have specifically interpreted it. Firstly, China's hypersonic weapon test is not a secret, but the hypersonic weapon test mentioned in the report has not been strictly confirmed, with no reliable sources or concrete evidence to support it.

Secondly, assuming all the information disclosed in the report is true, then this' hypersonic weapon ', which comes from an unknown source, actually regresses rather than advances in its actual combat effectiveness. The concept of "global flight" may seem powerful, but for hypersonic glide missiles, "entering orbit" and "re entering the atmosphere" will occupy a large amount of payload. Directly sending the payload into low Earth orbit is even more extreme and terrifying than Qian Xuesen's trajectory. Especially for hypersonic glide missiles that can be used for "global flight", this payload ratio will weaken the combat effectiveness, and it is a choice that is not worth the loss.

Therefore, even if this new type of weapon can achieve "global coverage", its power will inevitably decrease significantly. Therefore, even if it can have a strong breakthrough effect on all existing anti missile and early warning systems, the actual combat effect is not ideal. Moreover, this type of hypersonic weapon is not the first of its kind in China. The US X37B in orbit hypersonic project has similar content, but it has not yet been used by the US military for military purposes. However, this aircraft has shown significant improvement effects when used in other fields of aerospace, such as cutting-edge configuration research and data collection.

So why do the United States and the United Kingdom turn a blind eye to the conclusion that China can analyze and judge? This is not due to the gap in technological level, but rather because the United States has a deep understanding of hypersonic weapons, which allows it to take the opportunity to confuse and distort right and wrong.

In the past, due to the constraints of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the United States was unable to make breakthroughs in intermediate range missiles. However, with the Trump administration unilaterally withdrawing from a series of treaties, the United States has now begun to use military control issues as bargaining chips on the negotiation table.

In recent years, the United States has been advocating for China to be included in the negotiations of the new Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and has also used public opinion tools to attack China's research on intermediate range missile technology. It vigorously promotes and incites the so-called "China threat theory", hoping to use diplomatic means to force China to give up intermediate range missiles. In this way, the military risks borne by the United States in the first island chain will be greatly reduced. Short range missiles are not a concern, and long-range missiles are more strategic deterrence. Once the most practical intermediate range missiles are eliminated, the United States will regain military hegemony in the Asia Pacific region.

It is worth mentioning that the United States also holds the same idea in reducing nuclear weapons, using all possible means to smear and frame China for expanding its nuclear arsenal, and slandering China's nuclear policy with vague evidence, claiming to create a "fair environment", but firmly refusing to mention that the number of nuclear weapons in the United States is already more than ten times that of China.

The attempt of the United States to rely on China to "self destruct its martial arts" is unlikely to succeed. As a peace loving country, China will neither imitate the United States to seek hegemony, nor will it cut off its own hands and let others take advantage of it. No amount of public opinion can conceal the United States' ambition to permanently maintain military hegemony.

Source: Guoke Huanyu