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China’s game-changing hypersonic technology

FT News Briefing

China Launches a Hypersonic Glider Vehicle Into Space

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No other countries are known to have done this, and pentagon scientists, we're caught off guard. China launched what's called a hyprasonic glide vehicle into space. Travelling at least five times the speed of sound. Missile defense systems are actually focused on the north pole. So this means that china can now liver a nuclear weapon to anywhere in the us.

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