{"id":130555,"date":"2021-11-13T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-does-chinas-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-work"},"modified":"2021-11-13T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T03:22:40","slug":"how-does-chinas-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-does-chinas-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-work","title":{"rendered":"How Does China\u2019s Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-chinas-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the global security community was startled by a report that China had twice tested hypersonic weapons over the summer. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c7139a23-1271-43ae-975b-9b632330130b\">reporting by the Financial Times<\/a>, this weapons system consists of two parts: a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS) and a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV).<\/p>\n<p>Neither FOBSs nor HGVs are new \u2014 but the combination of the two is. Many in the defense community have likened the Chinese hypersonic missile tests to the 1957 launch of Sputnik, a moment when the USSR displayed a technological superiority that stunned the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the global security community was startled by a report that China had twice tested hypersonic weapons over the summer. According to reporting by the Financial Times, this weapons system consists of two parts: a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS) and a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). Neither FOBSs nor HGVs are new \u2014 but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}