China Secretly Conducts Second Flight Test Of New Ultra High-Speed Missile -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon
Wu-14 hypersonic glide vehicle poses major strategic weapons threat
China recently conducted the second flight test of a new, ultra-high-speed missile that is part of what analysts say is Beijing’s global system of attack weapons capable of striking the United States with nuclear warheads.
The latest test of the new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) known as Wu-14 took place Aug. 7 at a missile facility in western China, said U.S. government officials familiar with details of the test reported in internal channels.
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool said when asked about the test: “We routinely monitor foreign defense activities, however we don’t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign weapons systems.”
He added that the Pentagon has encouraged China to adopt greater “transparency” for its defense programs “to avoid miscalculation.”
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My Comment: The problem with the Chinese is that we can never be sure on where they are in developing new weapons. I suspect that the Chinese hypersonic weapons program falls into that category.
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