All posts by Iain Boyd
China’s hypersonic missiles threaten US power in the Pacific – an aerospace engineer explains how the weapons work and the unique threats they pose
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. China’s newest hypersonic missile, the DF-27, can fly as far as Hawaii, penetrate U.S. missile defenses and pose a particular threat to U.S. aircraft carriers, according to news reports of an assessment from the Pentagon. Chinese researchers claimed…
Chinese spy balloon over the US: An aerospace expert explains how the balloons work and what they can see
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The U.S. military shot down what U.S. officials called a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2023. Officials said that the U.S. Navy planned to recover the debris, which is in shallow…