The US OSINT community is slowly figuring out the possibility that what was tested was an intercontinental ranged glider. Could have done it much sooner had they known Chinese and just read the damn Guancha article I linked earlier in the thread.
Chinese Hypersonic Developments (HGVs/HCMs)
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The US OSINT community is slowly figuring out the possibility that what was tested was an intercontinental ranged glider. Could have done it much sooner had they known Chinese and just read the damn Guancha article I linked earlier in the thread.
AssassinsMace
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Yes the nuclear weaponized part was the red-herring just to get the world scared to demand China stop it. The real threat is the hypersonic technology development. They don't want China to have it because they're behind.
Yep pretty much finally on the money.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Interesting how what they use to ridicule about China's capabilities and then there's a breakthrough, they all of the sudden deny they ever did that. They did that with stealth fighters. I remember hearing jokes about how China would have someone forced to sacrifice their lives when China had a rocket launched because someone had to go out to the launch pad and light the fuse with a match. And now with this hypersonic development they've already forgotten how they use to ridicule Chinese ICBM ranges. With this, it's the whole world in range. China can conventionally strike their carriers in their homeports in their own countries. The dream of the US's Prompt Global Strike realized in China. Yes it's DefCon1 for the pride police.
This guy is screaming for money
Of course the truth is deeper than that. At the minimum, today's America care more about people's sexual orientation and skin color than their capabilities. Big corporations behave even worse than China's state own enterprises. Greed and short term profit more important than anything else. And there is a genuine decline of engineering capabilities, not just in defense industry.
Look at Intel. Were they ever short of money to do what they were supposed to do? Now they want subsidies to be competitive, so that they can keep their big fat profit.
This is not sputnik moment, because you won't see US mount a systematic comeback again. While China is firing on all cylinders (not to say China doesn't have her own problems), US politicians are busy fighting for partisan interests domestically. And internationally, they still see American as supreme power, that they can solve problems by pushing around through abduction, sanctions and intimidation while ignoring all established consensus and rules. Good luck with that.
People say never underestimate United States. Yeah I heard of that.but no one is trying to replace their role. So nothing to worry about.
No, he's not. He's giving as honest as assessment of the facts at his disposal as he can while remaining within the bounds of what he's allowed to say. It is simply a fact that China's hypersonic weapons program is more advanced than Americans. This is a splendid achievement that China's supporters should celebrate, not downplay with banal truisms like the Pentagon is always begging for more money.This guy is screaming for money
I mean, there's no reason both cannot be true.
That said, I am not fully convinced that China's hypersonic weapons program is significantly more advanced than that of the US.
There are certain weapons and vehicular systems types that have yet to reach a stage of maturity that we know of to make that call.
After all, the US military has a history of describing close competitors as being ahead of them, simply due to the notion that anything less than all aspect generational superiority against their potential adversaries, is seen as the US falling behind in competitiveness.