Yeah - China denies... We've seen this before - or at least our grandparents did
Posted on 10/18/2021 8:18:53 PM PDT by blueplum
China has denied reports that it tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile earlier this year, insisting instead that it was a routine spacecraft check.
The initial report in the Financial Times newspaper prompted concern in Washington, where US intelligence was reportedly caught by surprise.
Hypersonic missiles are much faster and more agile than normal ones, meaning they are more difficult to intercept.
It comes as concern grows around China's nuclear capabilities.
On Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing that a routine test had been carried out in July to verify different types of reusable spacecraft technology.
"This was not a missile, this was a spacecraft," he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
And the Wuhan Flu wasn’t targeted at Whitey.
Buncha Racists.
A nuclear hypersonic weapon is a bomb on a hypersonic spacecraft on a missile, so he isn't technically a liar, but simply talking out of both sides of his mouth plus another oriface all at the same time.
Hmmm, propaganda to make everyone fear china to make it easier to enact global communism of the china variety?
Not a missile...
It was a spacecraft.
Ahhhhh, sounds like a Clintoneske technicality to me.
CCP denies WhuHu Flu from Fauxcy’s local Lab.
Over-simplification. Depends on if you're talking in atmosphere or out of atmosphere, because missiles do both but at vastly different velocities. ICBMs are much faster in space than hypersonic vehicles are in the atmosphere. In the atmosphere, hypersonics are significantly faster than conventional anti-aircraft or anti-tank missiles, but to my knowledge the precision guidance is still not there.
China delenda est.
Cato the Youngest!
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