{"id":132752,"date":"2021-12-20T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-new-hypersonic-wind-tunnel-will-put-china-20-to-30-years-ahead-of-the-west"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:43:09","slug":"a-new-hypersonic-wind-tunnel-will-put-china-20-to-30-years-ahead-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-new-hypersonic-wind-tunnel-will-put-china-20-to-30-years-ahead-of-the-west","title":{"rendered":"A New Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Will Put China \u201820 to 30 Years Ahead\u2019 of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-hypersonic-wind-tunnel-will-put-china-20-to-30-years-ahead-of-the-west.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JF-22 will reach speeds of up to Mach 30.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese physicist revealed that a new wind tunnel in Beijing will \u201csoon\u201d be unveiled that will put China decades ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to testing hypersonic weapons technology, a South China Morning Post article reveals.<\/p>\n<p>In an online lecture last week, Han Guilai, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed new information about the JF-22 wind tunnel in Beijing, which will be capable of simulating flights at Mach 30 \u2014 30 times the speed of sound and approximately 6.2 miles (10 km) per second. The launch date for the JF-22 wind tunnel is currently classified.<\/p>\n<p>Flying at Mach 30 is like \u2018swimming in mud\u2019 During the lecture, Guilai said that the enhanced capabilities of this new wind tunnel, added to the existing research capacity of China\u2019s existing facilities, would put the country \u201cabout 20 to 30 years ahead\u201d of the West. China\u2019s next most powerful wind tunnel is JF-12, which runs at a fifth of the power output of JF-22.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersonic wind tunnels in the U.S. include the Hypersonic Tunnel Facility (HTF) at NASA\u2019s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, OH. That tunnel (pictured above), which was originally built to test nuclear thermal rocket nozzles, can test hypersonic flight up to Mach 7.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JF-22 will reach speeds of up to Mach 30. A Chinese physicist revealed that a new wind tunnel in Beijing will \u201csoon\u201d be unveiled that will put China decades ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to testing hypersonic weapons technology, a South China Morning Post article reveals. In an online lecture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132752","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}