Tag: Hypersonics

To Counter CCP, AUKUS Need to Deepen Cooperation in Key Defense Technologies

AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, needs to accelerate and deepen cooperation on key defence technologies, including hypersonics, electronic warfare, and undersea capabilities, in order to effectively counter the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),  a think tank report shows. The collective strength of the AUKUS countries has turned…


Beijing Snares Top UK Physicist to Assist With Hypersonic Weapons Research

Beijing has reportedly lured one of the United Kingdom’s (UK) top physicists and leading experts in the fields of multiscale gas, liquids, and solid systems—critically important for hypersonic research. Zhang Yonghao, who worked in the UK for more than 20 years in leading universities, also held the Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics chair…


China Developing New Hypersonic Missile Capable of Striking Cars in Transit

China’s communist regime is reportedly developing a new hypersonic weapon accurate enough to target a moving passenger vehicle while flying at five times the speed of sound. A research team at the Chinese military’s PLA Rocket Force University of Engineering said that it was making “important progress” toward developing a heat-seeking missile capable of extreme…


US Requires Space-Based Systems to Counter Chinese, Russian Hypersonic Missiles: Expert

The United States requires new space-based missile defense systems to counter the growing threat of hypersonic weapons, according to one expert. “As it relates to hypersonic or nuclear and conventional intercontinental ballistic missile or nuclear missiles, the United States must have immediately a space-based missile defense system,” Brandon Weichert, a geopolitical analyst and author, told…