China has the fastest missile in the world. Hypersonic.

[Cattledog]

So fast it is undetectable. Just add a nuclear warhead and First strike capability.

ABC World News Tonight.

[walkingman]

1. Oh Great, just what the world needs.

[dchill]

2. Damn technology!

(Not joking.)

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. If that's actually true, trust me, it will soon be detectable (by the US at least)

It ain't invisible, which means it can be detected, just have to have the right tech.

Which we will ... quickly.

Rest of the world ... I dunno.

[jpak]

5. The US is working hard on its own hypersonics

And will field them in the next couple of years.

They aren't the fractional orbit bombardment missiles like China may have tested, but they would get to China first.

I have not heard any buzz about whether they are nuclear armed, but they appear to be conventional (non nuclear).

China would be utterly stupid to attack the US with nukes, hypersonic or not.

[walkingman]

6. Based on the last few years, I worry more about the US being stupid with nukes.

That is the reason that I think this ever escalating technological arms race as very, very dangerous.

[jpak]

8. I'm not too worried about Chinese hypersonic missiles

If they launched them, they would be immediately detected by US satellites.

And how would a nuclear warhead inside a glide body survive the heat they would be subjected to?

And they are wildly inaccurate.

Supposedly this test missed its target by 24 miles.

That's not even 1950's tech.

That said, psychopathic assholes like like Trump are the real threat.

Yup

[marie999]

10. I'm more worried about India and Pakistan.

[Devil Child]

18. Well China just escalated it, now the US and Russia will have to scramble to catch up

Not surprising since China has zero interest in participating in nuclear arms reduction treaties.

[Amishman]

7. In many ways we're back to where we were in the heart of the cold war

There is no viable defense, only mutually assured destruction from retaliatory strikes from the opposing side's missile submarines.

China has a horrific vulnerability in the form of Three Gorges Dam, that wouldn't even require a nuclear strike to trigger apocalyptic damage.

[jpak]

9. MAD works

Yup

[Mme. Defarge]

11. What,

me worry?

[roamer65]

12. Yeah, it did.

In certain ways, I miss the Soviet Union.

There was a certain stability to it back then.

[Justice matters.]

13. Russia has them too: They test launching them from "quiet" nuclear submarines.

"quiet" nuclear submarines in the sense that they are very hard to detect.

[Justice matters.]

14. Other countries also "work" on developing their own nuclear-winter devices...

Russia and North Korea both claim to have successfully test-launched hypersonic missiles.

India, Japan, Australia, France and Germany are meanwhile in the process of developing such weapons, according to a report published in August by the US Congressional Research Service (CRS).

The CRS report said a number of other states – including Iran, Israel, and South Korea – have also “conducted foundational research on hypersonic airflows and propulsion systems, but may not be pursuing a hypersonic weapons capability at this time”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/18/china-denies-report-of-hypersonic-missile-test

(Of course China denies it... I don't believe any of their "denials" after what they did to two Canadians.)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. All long-range ballistic missile systems are hypersonic.

[Devil Child]

19. Hypersonic glide vehicles instead of traditional ballistic missile trajectory

Which is the cause of strategic concern.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42772/china-tested-a-fractional-orbital-bombardment-system-that-uses-a-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-report

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. I know.

[RFCalifornia]

16. "The Past Isn't Dead. It Isn't Even Past"

The Cold War never ended

Time to bring out Bert the Turtle again

[CrackityJones75]

17. We don't know shit about shit ok?

To say that China has the best or fastest anything military wise because of something in the press is laughable at best. Its the shit that we have absolutely bo idea about that matters.