{"id":135282,"date":"2022-02-06T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/north-korea-claims-successfully-testing-a-new-hypersonic-gliding-warhead"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:23:33","slug":"north-korea-claims-successfully-testing-a-new-hypersonic-gliding-warhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/north-korea-claims-successfully-testing-a-new-hypersonic-gliding-warhead","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Claims Successfully Testing a New Hypersonic Gliding Warhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-claims-successfully-testing-a-new-hypersonic-gliding-warhead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These missiles are too fast to detect. Hypersonic weapons technology is at the heart of a new arms race. Currently, the US, China, and Russia are all competing to develop the most effective long-range hypersonic missiles. A recent report revealed that North Korea has also successfully tested a hypersonic missile on January 5, 2022, the country\u2019s second reported test of a hypersonic missile.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>North Korea has also referred to verifying the \u201cfuel ampoule system\u201d during this deployment which means that the liquid fuel used by the missile was sealed at production. This <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/43764\/north-korea-releases-new-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-test-launch-image\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">allows for rapid deployment<\/a> even after the missile has been stored for long periods of time, while also reducing its vulnerability to pre-emptive strikes.<\/p>\n<p>We have now seen what North Korea can do in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/watch-north-korea-launch-ballistic-missiles-from-trains\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/watch-north-korea-launch-ballistic-missiles-from-trains\">quite imaginative ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These missiles are too fast to detect. Hypersonic weapons technology is at the heart of a new arms race. Currently, the US, China, and Russia are all competing to develop the most effective long-range hypersonic missiles. A recent report revealed that North Korea has also successfully tested a hypersonic missile on January 5, 2022, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135282","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=135282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}