The Chinese military leaders appear to be alarmed by the novel tactics employed by the US Air Force (USAF). In particular, the USAF's efforts to launch cruise missiles out of cargo aircraft have been perceived as a worrying development by military experts in China.
North Korea claims that the projectile it launched on 5 January into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) was a hypersonic missile. The country's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported the day after that the launch was conducted by Pyon.
The US Air Force Rapid Dragon Program successfully completed its final system-level flight test on 16 December with “a live fire of a current inventory cruise missile armed with a live warhead” as part of an airdropped palletised weapon syst.
The US Air Force Rapid Dragon Program successfully completed its final system-level flight test on 16 December with “a live fire of a current inventory cruise missile armed with a live warhead” as part of an airdropped palletised weapon syst.