Hypersonic Glid Vehicles Are Attractive

hypersonic gliders can glide in the upper atmosphere, sometimes skipping along the top of it. They can stay lower than ic b m, so they can hide from radar. If you're a chinese dictator who doesn't want his nuclear weapons to be shot down by america, that's attractive. The other thing that makes this test weapon attractive is the orbital nuclear weapons element of it. And we have examples of this right the soviet union built something called a fractional orbital bombardment system in the 19 sixties. It operated it until the 19 eighties. You know, this wasn't just a crazy drawing board thing. They actually built the thing and had it ready to