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A hypersonic missile is among the high-tech weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to introduce to cope with what he called deepening U.S. hostility.

North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, claiming progress in efforts to develop a more powerful, agile missile designed to strike faraway U.S. targets in the region.

A hypersonic missile is among an array of high-tech weapons systems that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un publicly vowed to introduce in 2021 to cope with what he called deepening U.S. hostility. Outside experts say Kim wants a modernized weapons arsenal to wrest U.S. concessions like sanctions relief when diplomacy resumes.

On Tuesday, Kim guided the ground jet test of the multi-stage solid-fuel engine for the hypersonic missile at the North’s northwestern rocket launch facility, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

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[-] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

So Russia did use their hypersonics.

Problem is, their hypersonics turned out to be all hype and little sonic.

Patriot missile batteries shot them down

Source: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/09/what-ukraines-shoot-down-hypersonic-missile-patriot-says-about-future-weapons/390498/

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not only that, Russia arrested the scientists responsible for the Kinzal program after the missiles were shot down. From what I’ve read, hypersonics move so fast that they’re not easily maneuverable so it’s quite easy to predict where the missile will be to point an air defense missile to intercept it. Either way, it was funny watching their wunderwaffe go down like a wet fart

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

That's probably because someone found out that putting a ground launched ballistic missile from 2006 on an aircraft, that Patriots were designed to defend against, does not make it a scramjet.

[-] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Interesting, thank you. No one in the circles I'm in who were hyping up Russian hypersonic missiles as the next ICBM mentioned this.

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