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China’s success in flying a scramjet-powered hypersonic aircraft, 
trailing the U.S. by no more than a few years, reveals that its 
engineers have overcome severe cooling problems first mentioned five 
years ago. <b>The successful test, announced in October, followed the January 2014 flight of a Chinese hypersonic glider.</b><br />
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The China Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics says the engine of the
 aircraft, which must have been unmanned and probably quite small, is 
the <b>world’s first kerosene-burning scramjet</b> with regenerative cooling. This is at odds with the <a class="externalLink" href="http://awin.aviationweek.com/OrganizationProfiles.aspx?orgId=12083" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Boeing</a>
 X-51A WaveRider, in which fuel cooled the engine while being heated to 
improve combustion, flown in the U.S in 2010 and again in 2013.<br />
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The society announced the Chinese success to recognize the achievements 
of the project leader, Wang Zhenguo. A professor at the National 
University of Defense Technology, Wang led the research and development 
team for more than 20 years, from concept to planning and system 
integration. This involved “development and production in a nationally 
important project for a certain type of hypersonic aircraft,” the 
society says. Wang, referred to as the chief designer, was also in 
charge of flight testing.<br />
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As a result, China has become only the second country, behind the U.S., 
to independently fly such an aircraft, the society says. Chinese media 
quoted the society as making these statements in a report on its award 
to Wang.<br />
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On its website, csaa.org.cn, the society says Wang has undertaken 
pioneering research on scramjets and their ground and flight testing, 
achieving a leap in technology. Among his responsibilities has been an 
unnamed “large and important national project”—which sounds like a 
priority weapon system.<br />
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The date of the Chinese test is not disclosed, except that it came after
 the X-51A’s fourth and final, fully successful flight in May 2013. The 
first flight of the U.S. scramjet-powered experimental aircraft in May 
2010 was successful, but shorter than planned. Two failures followed.<br />
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China revealed details of ongoing studies of regeneratively cooled 
scramjets in 2010 but acknowledged problems with uneven temperature and 
heat-flux distribution thatweresevere enough to cause local plasticity 
in the flow-path structure. This early work, undertaken at the China 
Aerodynamics Research and Development Center in Mianyang and at 
NorthwesternPolytechnical University in Xian, openly recognized the 
earlier scramjet developments made by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne 
(now part of <a class="externalLink" href="http://awin.aviationweek.com/OrganizationProfiles.aspx?orgId=2026112" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aerojet</a> Rocketdyne).<br />
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At that time, Pratt & Whitney was developing the SJX61-2 scramjet, 
cooled by its JP7 fuel, to power the X-51A, a missile-size demonstrator 
built by Boeing for the U.S. Air Force. The vehicle achieved sustained 
flight above Mach 5 on its final test in 2013 and proved the practical 
viability of an air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle.<br />
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Although no follow-on demonstrators were funded, developers hoped to 
investigate future propulsion systems fueled by RP-1, RP-2 or JP-10. 
Denser than JP-7, JP-10 is a special high-flash-point fuel originally 
used by the Lockheed SR-71. In all cases, the key issue was the fuel’s 
endothermic, or heat-absorbing, capability. All these fuels are 
essentially kerosene, with additives.<br />
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The final X-51A flight ended after 210 sec. under scramjet power when 
its fuel was exhausted. It proved JP-7 could successfully cool the 
engine and in doing so be preheated to an optimum temperature for 
combustion. Such recycling of extracted heat is regenerative cooling. <br />
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The Chinese claim to have successfully tested the first kerosene-burning
 scramjet with regenerative cooling is therefore puzzling to senior 
propulsion specialists who were involved in the X-51A project. Some 
speculate the Chinese could be making a distinction between JP-7 and 
standard kerosene, or possibly between a scramjet and a dual-mode 
propulsion system. The X-51A was first accelerated to hypersonic speeds 
by a rocket booster after air launch from a B-52, then flew under the 
power of its scramjet engine.<br />
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On Jan. 9, 2014, China tested a hypersonic glider the Pentagon dubbed 
WU-14. Launched by an intercontinental ballistic missile, it was 
presumably a demonstrator or prototype for an unpowered warhead that 
would exploit lift to extend range and confound defenses with maneuvers.
 Conceivably, the WU-14 could have been used to test the flight control 
system for the powered hypersonic aircraft that has now been flown.
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U.S. Hypersonic Researchers Question Chinese Scramjet Pronouncement

China’s success in flying a scramjet-powered hypersonic aircraft, trailing the U.S. by no more than a few years, reveals that its engine...

Fourth Test of Wu-14 Hypersonic Strike Vehicle

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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>‘Extreme maneuvers’ used in latest high-speed warhead test</b></span>.<br />
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China this week carried out the fourth test of an ultra high-speed 
nuclear delivery vehicle that conducted what intelligence officials say 
were extreme maneuvers.<br />
The test of the Wu-14 hypersonic strike vehicle was carried out 
Sunday, launched atop a ballistic missile fired from a test facility in 
western China.<br />
It was the fourth successful test of the Wu-14 in the past 18 months 
and the frequency of tests is being viewed by U.S. intelligence analysts
 as an indicator of the high priority placed on developing the weapon by
 the Chinese.<br />
Earlier tests took place last year on Jan. 9, Aug. 7, and Dec. 2. The Washington Free Beacon first reported the tests.<br />
The new strike vehicle is considered a high-technology strategic 
weapon capable of delivering nuclear or conventional warheads while 
traveling on the edge of space. One of its key features is the ability 
to maneuver to avoid U.S. missile defenses.<br />
The Wu-14 was assessed as traveling up to 10 times the speed of sound, or around 7,680 miles per hour.<br />
Unlike earlier tests, the latest test demonstrated what one official 
called “extreme maneuvers” that appeared to analysts designed for 
penetrating through missile defense systems.<br />
Current U.S. missile defenses are limited to knocking out missiles 
and their warheads with predictable ballistic trajectories that can be 
tracked with relative ease by satellite sensors and ground and sea 
radar.<br />
However, the Wu-14 threatens to neutralize U.S. strategic missile 
defenses with the unique capability of flying at ultra high speeds and 
maneuvering to avoid detection and tracking by radar and missile defense
 interceptors.<br />
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has repeatedly declined to 
comment on whether current U.S. missile defenses can defeat maneuvering 
targets.<br />
A congressional China commission stated in a report published in 
November that China is working on hypersonic arms as “a core component 
of its next-generation precision strike capability.”<br />
“Hypersonic glide vehicles could render existing U.S. missile defense
 systems less effective and potentially obsolete,” the report said.<br />
In addition to the glide vehicle, China also is developing a second 
hypersonic weapon the uses a high-technology scramjet engine.<br />
The Pentagon and China’s defense ministry confirmed the earlier 
tests. Asked about the latest test, however, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col.
 Jeff Pool declined to comment on the test, citing a policy of not 
discussing intelligence matters.<br />
However, specialists on China’s military buildup say the latest test 
is another significant milestone for Chinese long-range strike 
capabilities.<br />
“With four tests in about a year and a half, it is possible that 
China could conclude development of an early version for deployment in 
one to two years,” said Rick Fisher, a China expert with the 
International Assessment and Strategy Center.<br />
Former Pentagon official Mark Stokes, also a China weapons 
specialist, said the People’s Liberation Army and China’s space and 
missile industry have been conducting engineering design work on a 
boosted hypersonic glide vehicle for some time.<br />
“Certification of the design requires prototype testing of the post 
boost vehicle, which is probably what’s going on,” said Stokes, now with
 the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank.<br />
“Fielding of a hypersonic glide vehicle would advance the PLA’s 
ability to hold U.S. targets at risk, as well as those of allies and 
partners,” Stokes added.<br />
Lora Saalman, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center
 for Security Studies, the latest Wu-14 test indicates the weapon is a 
high priority.<br />
“This test is keeping in line with China’s fast-tracking of this 
program and efforts to expand not just the range but also the 
capabilities and maneuverability of the system,” she said.<br />
Fisher said he suspects an early version of the Wu-14 will be 
launched atop a DF-21 medium-range ballistic missile, although in the 
future it would be carried by the 2,485-mile range DF-26.<br />
“Perhaps the most important U.S. antidote for China’s hypersonic 
maneuvering warhead is U.S. energy weapons programs,” Fisher said.<br />
“There is an urgent need to increase funding to accelerate the early deployment of rail gun weapons.”<br />
Rail guns fire shotgun-style pellets at hypersonic speeds that create
 pellet clouds that can be used to damage or destroy Chinese hypersonic 
warheads.<br />
“It is urgent that the U.S. speed the deployment of rail guns to 
defend aircraft carriers, large combat ships, and major U.S. military 
facilities in Asia,” he said.<br />
“The U.S. also needs to accelerate the development of its own 
hypersonic weapons, ground, air, and sea-launched, to deter China’s use 
of these weapons.”<br />
The current House version of the fiscal 2016 defense authorization 
bill calls for the Pentagon to conduct advanced technology war games, 
including those involving hypersonic strike systems.<br />
The bill includes $291 million for an extended-range variant of 
Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense 
system to deal with hypersonic threats.<br />
“The committee is aware of the rapidly evolving threat from potential
 adversaries’ development of hypersonic weapons,” the report on the bill
 says, noting China’s several recent tests.<br />
“The [Armed Services] committee believes this rapidly emerging 
capability could be a threat to national security and our operational 
forces,” the report said.<br />
The Army has conducted two tests of its Advanced Hypersonic Weapon 
and in the latest test the missile launcher blew up shortly after 
liftoff.<br />
The committee called on the military to develop hypersonic targets to improve U.S. defenses.<br />
A Chinese Embassy spokesman did not return an email seeking comment.<br />
In the past, China’s government has called the hypersonic tests normal military experiments.<br />
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<i>By: Bill Gertz. Washington Free Beacon “China Conducts Fourth Test of Wu-14 Strike Vehicle”</i><br />
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Fourth Test of Wu-14 Hypersonic Strike Vehicle

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Extended Range THAAD, enhanced BMS to defend against attacking hypersonic gliders vehicle

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 <span class="wp_keywordlink">ockheed Martin</span>’s air and missile defense systems – Patriot PAC-3 (upper), enhanced version (MSE) and the <span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate">THAAD</span> (lower), shown on a missile display at Lockheed Martin’s display.<br />
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The US Missile defense Agency (<span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate">MDA</span>) is seeking future missile defense measures that will be able to defeat <span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank" title="View all posts in hypersonic glide vehicle">hypersonic glide vehicle</a></span>s, similar to those being developed by <span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank" title="View all posts in China">China</a></span>, Russia and India. A Chinese <span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank" title="View all posts in hypersonic glide vehicle">hypersonic glide vehicle</a></span> (<span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank" title="View all posts in HGV">HGV</a></span>) tested in January 2014 demonstrated <span class="wp_keywordlink_affiliate"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank" title="View all posts in China">China</a></span>’s
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speed of sound (Mach 10). While interceptors can deal with targets 
flying at such speed, the less predicted flight path and the friction 
with upper atmosphere make it more difficult for intercept, at least 
from the ground, analysts suggest.<br />

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test conducted in August failed. Experts believe the Chinese hypersonic 
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THAAD ER is a concept that Lockheed Martin is recommending to the 
Missile Defense Agency as a way to evolve the THAAD program. Similar 
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Current missile defense systems are designed to defeat ballistic 
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maneuvering targets, but hypersonic gliders flying just above the edge 
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due to the combination of flat trajectory and high speed (8-10 Mach) 
which would challenge the limited maneuverability interceptors can 
develop in that boundary layer, where aerodynamic maneuvering (in the 
atmosphere) is limited and reaction control thrusters, used to divert 
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<b>Missile-launched Wu-14 glide vehicle designed for nuclear strike against U.S. through missile defenses</b><br />
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China conducted the third flight test of a new hypersonic missile this 
week as part of its strategic nuclear program and efforts to develop 
delivery vehicles capable of defeating US countermeasures, defense 
officials said.<br />
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The flight test of the developmental Wu-14 hypersonic glide vehicle was 
monitored by US intelligence agencies Tuesday during a flight test in 
western China.<br />
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The latest flight test followed earlier tests of the Wu-14 on Jan. 9 and
 Aug. 7. The three tests indicate that China’s development of a strike 
vehicle capable of traveling up to eight times the speed of sound is a 
high-priority element in China’s large-scale military buildup.<br />
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A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the test but declined to provide details.<br />
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“We are aware of reports regarding this test and we routinely monitor 
foreign defense activities,” Marine Corps Lt. Col. Jeff Pool told the 
Washington Free Beacon.<br />
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“However, we don’t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign
 weapon systems,” Pool added, noting that the Pentagon has encouraged 
China to adopt greater openness with regard to its defense investments 
and military objectives “to avoid miscalculation.”<br />
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Last month in Beijing, the United States and China agreed to a new 
military accord that called for notifying each country of major military
 activities. It could not be learned if the Chinese notified the 
Pentagon in advance of the Wu-14 test.<br />
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The Wu-14 was launched atop a Chinese ballistic missile and released along the edge of space.<br />
Past tests of the glide vehicle were clocked as reaching an estimated 
speed of Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound — around 7,680 miles 
per hour.<br />
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Such speeds create difficult aeronautics and physics challenges for 
guidance systems and place extreme stress on materials used in 
construction of the vehicle.<br />
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The annual report of the congressional US-China Economic and Security 
Review Commission, made public Nov. 20, reveals China’s hypersonic 
weapons program is a major development effort.<br />
<br />
The report said the People’s Liberation Army “is developing hypersonic 
glide vehicles as a core component of its next-generation precision 
strike capability.”<br />
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“Hypersonic glide vehicles could render existing US missile defense 
systems less effective and potentially obsolete,” the report said.<br />
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The report said once deployed the Wu-14 “could enable China to conduct 
kinetic strikes anywhere in the world within minutes to hours.”<br />
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China plans to deploy its high-speed glide vehicle by 2020 and a scramjet powered hypersonic vehicle by 2025.<br />
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Lee Fuell, technical director for force modernization and employment at 
the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), told the 
Commission that Chinese glide vehicle is launched on a ballistic 
missile, dives to hypersonic speed and glides to its target. The weapon 
currently is assessed to be “associated with [China’s] nuclear deterrent
 forces.”<br />
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“Of great concern would be if [China] was to apply the same technology 
and capability with a conventional warhead or even just without a 
warhead because of the kinetic energy that it has in combination with 
their theater ballistic missiles … in a theater role,” Fuell said.<br />
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The intelligence analyst said that hypersonic vehicles “are extremely 
difficult to defend against because just the time is so compressed 
between initial detection, being able to get a track, being able to get a
 fire control solution, and then just being able to have a weapon that 
can intercept them in some way just because of the speed at which 
they’re moving.”<br />
<br />
“If that is combined with more traditional ballistic missile attacks 
forcing a target to defend against very high aspect warheads coming in 
this way at the same time they have to defend against low altitude, very
 high speed targets coming in [another] way, it makes the defense 
problem orders of magnitude worse for the defender,” he said.<br />
<br />
The commission report stated that China is expanding its strategic 
nuclear forces “significantly,” with deployment of new missiles, 
submarines, and multiple-warhead weapons.<br />
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Rick Fisher, a China military affairs analyst, said more tests are needed for China to turn the Wu-14 into a working weapon.<br />
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“But the real story is that such a program is now well underway,” said 
Fisher, with the International Assessment and Strategy Center. “For 
hypersonic systems, all tests, failures, and successes, provide a 
positive contribution toward the goal of developing a weapon.”<br />
<br />
The Wu-14 is part of what military analysts have said in a growing 
hypersonic arms race involving China, Russia, and the United States.<br />
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Russia’s government announced last month that Moscow plans to field hypersonic missiles by 2020.<br />
By contrast, US development of a hypersonic weapons program has been limited.<br />
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The Aug. 25 test of the Army’s Advanced Hypersonic Weapon ended in 
disaster after the booster launching the weapon blew up shortly after 
launch from a test base on Kodiak Island, Alaska.<br />
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handout photo courtesy of NASA. A hypersonic weapon being developed by 
the US military was destroyed four seconds after its launch from a test 
range in Alaska early on Aug. 25, 2014 after controllers detected a 
problem with the system, the Pentagon said. The mission was aborted to 
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Funding for hypersonic weapons development also has been limited to 
around $360 million dollars, an amount critics say is small compared to 
estimated investments by China.<br />
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“It is now necessary for the United States to substantially increase 
funding in two areas,” Fisher, the China military analyst said. “First 
the U.S. must expand and accelerate its own hypersonic weapons program.”<br />
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The Pentagon should fund several types of hypersonic systems in a 
development competition, Fisher said, as well as further research in 
counter-hypersonic arms.<br />
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Past Pentagon research has included development of both 
guided-but-unpowered glide vehicles, and high-technology 
scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicles.<br />
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A space plane called the X-37 also is being developed as part of a program known as conventional Prompt Global Strike.<br />
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US intelligence analysts have said the current Chinese Wu-14 program is 
currently part of its strategic nuclear program. However, China also 
could use the Wu-14 as part of its conventional strike program, such as 
planning attacks on aircraft carriers in the western Pacific.<br />
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“While missile based counter-systems may provide an early solution, 
there is much more potential in the realm of energy weapons,” Fisher 
said.<br />
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“For example, rail guns offer great potential for early solutions to 
maneuvering hypersonic weapons and this technology deserves much greater
 funding,” he said.<br />
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“These will be absolutely necessary for China to successfully employ its long range hypersonic weapons,” he said.<br />
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A Chinese Embassy spokesman could not be reached for comment.<br />
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Lora Saalman, an expert on China’s hypersonic development at the 
Carnegie Endowment, said after China’s second Wu-14 test in August that 
the closeness of the first two tests showed that Beijing is 
“fast-tracking” the strategic program.<br />
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“When compared with the yearly gaps in between its [anti-satellite] and 
[ballistic missile defense] tests in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2014, the 
Wu-14 accelerates China’s development timeline exponentially,” she said 
in an email in August.<br />
Saalman believes the Wu-14 is part of a Chinese version of the U.S. conventional Prompt Global Strike program.<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
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.”<br />
He added that the Pentagon has encouraged China to adopt greater 
“transparency” for its defense programs “to avoid miscalculation.”<br />
Pool confirmed the first test in January, but declined to provide a 
similar confirmation on the recent test. However, two other U.S. 
officials said the Aug. 7 test involved the Wu-14 HGV.<br />
The first flight test of the Wu-14 took place Jan. 9 and flew at 
speeds of around Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound—around 7,680 
miles per hour. Hypersonic speeds pose severe guidance and control 
challenges for weapons engineers and produce extreme stress to metal and
 components.<br />
The Chinese hypersonic test is further evidence of what is viewed in 
intelligence circles as an emerging hypersonic arms race. In addition to
 China, the United States, Russia and India are building high-technology
 hypersonic strategic arms. The weapons are sought for their 
hard-to-counter features and ability to defeat strategic missile 
defenses.<br />
Disclosure of the latest weapons test comes as Secretary of State John Kerry,
 in a speech last week, called for closer cooperation with China. 
Tensions between Washington and Beijing have increased over aggressive 
Chinese maritime claims in Asia.<br />
“We are committed to avoiding the trap of strategic rivalry and 
intent on forging a relationship in which we broaden our cooperation on 
common interests and constructively manage our differences and 
disagreements,” Kerry said during a speech Aug. 13 in Hawaii.<br />
In China, state-run press outlets made no mention of the Aug. 7 test,
 but Chinese Internet reports revealed a possible Wu-14 launch was 
carried out as the upper stage of a missile on Aug. 7 from the Jiuquan satellite launch facility located in the far western Gobi Desert.<br />
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Reports and photos posted online indicated that the booster rocket used in the test crash landed in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region.<br />
The booster crash is consistent with a hypersonic test, analysts 
said. Hypersonic glide vehicles travel in near space and thus the rocket
 that launched it may not have left the atmosphere, thus preventing it 
from burning up as would have occurred if it had reentered the 
atmosphere.<br />
Photos posted on Chinese Internet sites and later removed showed 
debris from a booster that had Chinese characters painted on pieces 
indicating the rocket belonged to the China Aerospace Corp.—China’s main
 missile manufacturer.<br />
The pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily reported
 Aug. 11 that Chinese microbloggers identified the Inner Mongolia crash 
as a failed Wu-14 test, but the newspaper said the impact was most 
likely caused by debris from a falling rocket booster.<br />
China military affairs analysts said the second test of the HGV 
relatively soon after the January test is a significant strategic threat
 and a sign China has placed a high priority on the new weapon.<br />
“The decision to conduct a second Wu-14 test only a few months after 
its first test shows China’s commitment to fast-tracking this program,” 
said Lora Saalman, a specialist on China’s hypersonic development with 
the Carnegie Endowment.<br />
“When compared with the yearly gaps in between its [anti-satellite] 
and [ballistic missile defense] tests in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2014, the
 WU-14 accelerates China’s development timeline exponentially,” Saalman 
said in an email.<br />
Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said the second test portends two near-term threats.<br />
“First would be a potential for early deployment of a maneuverable 
HGV warhead for theater-range and then intercontinental-range missiles,”
 Fisher said.<br />
“Secondly, accelerated HGV testing could potentially allow China to 
develop a second generation anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) warhead 
that is more maneuverable and more difficult to counter.”<br />
Saalman said China has produced thousands of papers and writings on 
hypersonics and boost-glide technology that “further support the idea 
that this is a priority” program.<br />
In a report published in April for the U.S. Pacific Command’s think tank, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies,
 Saalman stated the Wu-14 appears to be part of China’s efforts to build
 a counterpart to the U.S. Prompt Global Strike initiative.<br />
Prompt Global Strike
 (PGS) is a U.S. military program to develop weapons—mainly 
missiles—that can strike targets at any location on earth within 30 
minutes using conventional warheads. China fears the system will be used
 to knock out its nuclear missiles on the ground in the early stages of a
 conflict.<br />
The U.S. PGS capability is being designed for use against terrorists 
or nuclear and other mass destruction weapons that are identified by 
intelligence agencies and must be attacked quickly before the targets 
flee or are moved.<br />
Saalman said the Wu-14 represents “a potential leap in global reach, 
if mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile” and potentially “a 
conventional or nuclear form of Chinese prompt global strike.”<br />
The Chinese regard the Wu-14 as a “sword” strike weapons that likely will be combined with missile defenses—a “shield.”<br />
The first test in January took China’s “regional weapons advances and thrust them onto the global stage,” she stated.<br />
“This [January] test serves as a sign of China moving towards longer 
range, stronger retaliatory and potentially preemptive capability,” 
Saalman said, adding that the capability “could propel China from what 
has historically been a more reactive posture to a more active one.”<br />
Fisher said for the United States, the options for responding to the 
new strategic weapon are stark. The Pentagon should accelerate 
investments in both deterrent and defensive capabilities, he said.<br />
“The U.S. Navy should have a theater-range, HGV-ASBM to arm its 
[attack submarines],” Fisher said. “The Navy also requires funding for 
faster development of energy weapons to defend against China’s looming 
HGV threat.”<br />
Mark Stokes, a specialist on China’s strategic weapons, said the test
 signals Beijing’s priority for building hypersonic weapons.<br />
“I don’t think there’s any debate that the PLA is investing in the 
development of hypersonic technology, including scramjet engines and at 
least one hypersonic glide vehicle,” Stokes said in an email.<br />
Stokes said it is possible the recent test was carried out atop a medium-range or intermediate-range ballistic missile.<br />
According to Stokes, many of China’s missile engineering R&D 
tests and operational live-fire tests are carried out from Jiuquan, in 
Gansu province, where missiles are labeled “SC” for the Shuangchengzi 
missile range, another name for the missile test base. Other tests are 
conducted at the Taiyuan launch facility near Wuzhai, in Shanxi province
 further east, where developmental systems are labeled “Wu,” Stokes 
said.<br />
China’s Jiuquan launch facility took part in the January 2010 missile
 defense test involving a CSS-X-11 medium-range ballistic missile used 
as a target for the SC-19 missile defense interceptor.<br />
Earlier this year, U.S. intelligence agencies assessed the Wu-14 appears linked to China’s strategic nuclear weapons systems.<br />
Lee Fuell, an analyst with the Air Force National Air and Space 
Intelligence Center, told a congressional hearing that the strike 
vehicle is “basically a ballistic missile-launched system that gets the 
payload fast and high, pitches over, dives to hypersonic speed, and then
 basically just glides to the target.”<br />
“At this point, we think that’s associated with their nuclear deterrent forces,” Fuell told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
 on January 30. Fuell added: “Of great concern would be if they were to 
apply the same technology and capability with a conventional warhead or 
even just without a warhead because of the kinetic energy that it has.”<br />
The Pentagon, for its part, has conducted work on several hypersonic 
weapons platforms. They include the X-37B Space Plane, the Lockheed 
Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2, and the Air Force’s Force Application 
and Launch from Continental United States, known as FALCON. Boeing also 
has built an experimental hypersonic craft known as the X-51 WaveRider.<br />
However, funding for U.S. hypersonic strike craft has been limited as
 a result of sharp Pentagon budget cuts under the Obama administration.<br />
Russia’s military also has made developing hypersonic strike vehicles
 a priority. But Moscow is believed to be trailing both China and the 
United States in the capability.<br />
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