How the Chinese missile works that can attack the US through Antarctica

• China The Chinese hypersonic missile with nuclear capacity that "amazes" the US and that Beijing denies

• China China tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile

Hypersonic missiles provide

, cruise missiles (which fly at ground level

to geographical features) and maneuverable reentry vehicles, or MARV, for its acronym, appeared. in English (which allow nuclear or conventional warheads to change course by dribbling in the atmosphere following their targets).

Both types of aircraft - cruise missiles and MARVs -

. And hypersonic missiles take those characteristics to a new level that makes them, today,

. That, of course, if the missiles work. Because, according to the

, the Chinese missile

.

For something to be "hypersonic" it has to go at least five times the speed of sound,

.

There are two types of missiles of this type: ballistic, like China's, and cruise,

.

An unstoppable weapon

This second type is actually a much faster cruise missile than the current ones. Cruise missiles do not exceed the speed of sound, that is,

. That means that, if they are detected, they can be shot down even with past machine guns (and good luck). But the Tsirkon cruise missile launched by Russia in the Barents Sea reached, according to Moscow,

, or more than 8,000 kilometers per hour. That means that it took him just two and a half minutes to reach his target, located 350 kilometers, a distance similar to that between Madrid and Oviedo in a straight line, when a Tomahawk - a conventional US cruise missile - would have taken almost half an hour.

The Chinese-launched missile, however, is a different creature. It is a normal ballistic missile - in this case, a Larga Macha 2C, according to the

- with an atmospheric reentry head that, when targeting its target,

. As if that weren't enough, the Chinese missile appears to have been orbiting the Earth. That poses a direct threat to the United States, since it means that that country

. All the defense systems of the United States point north, to the Arctic,

, in the past, and Russian and Chinese, today.

Hypersonic ballistic missiles reach a much lower height than conventional missiles, since they are limited to being in the highest layers of the atmosphere, without going into outer space. In addition, its head of entry changes speed, heading and altitude. The combination of both factors makes them very difficult to detect and impossible to intercept. Thus, the antimissile system developed by the United States in Alaska and California to protect itself from North Korean attacks would be virtually rendered useless. In fact, hitting a conventional ballistic missile is very difficult. The US has done 20 tests with these missiles. Of these, 11 were a success and 9 or a failure.

The United States has been testing hypersonic missiles for years, but

. Russia claims to have started the deployment of this type of weapons several years ago. China's case is more difficult to assess, given that Beijing is expanding its missile forces, but denies that they include hypersonic weapons. In any case, Washington believes that both Moscow and Beijing have hypersonic missiles, although they are much more concerned about China because that country has vastly greater economic resources than Russia. The US will not have such weapons in operation for several years.

claims to have launched such a missile in

it is also investigating this direction, as part of its rivalry with China.

In any case, given the secrecy of the countries, added to the tendency to propaganda by governments, it will be very difficult to know the state of development of this technology.

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