by Agence France-Presse












"The race for the new hypersonic missile is set to shape world politics and create a highly uncertain and unbalanced world."

The Chinese military recently launched a rocket with a hypersonic glide vehicle that flew from the lower orbit. Many of you thought it was a missile. No, it is not a missile. It is a rocket carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle.

The hypersonic missile that it flies five times faster than the speed of sound and it actually opens up a whole new world of flight vehicles that can provide faster access to space because it's a rocket booster engine that will get you into space very fast. A country that has advanced propulsion technology can fly to space faster. It is a space race. It is about to arrive.

A hypersonic vehicle can be an aircraft, spacecraft or rocket. On this vehicle, if you can install a missile that has nuclear capability then we say it is a hypersonic nuclear missile.

A new race of Hypersonic:

China has tested a hypersonic vehicle that sends a clear message about China's progress on hypersonic weapons, so there are currently three countries that have made great strides in hypersonic technology, and those three countries include China, Russia and the United States are. There is also North Korea but these three states have mastered it. These three countries are in the race to develop a hypersonic weapons system. If successful, it will come as no surprise that the next challenge they want to pursue will be a hypersonic cruise missile. But if you look at Russia, it already has a hypersonic weapon called the Kunzel. It claims that it can reach the speed of Mach 10 and it says that it has another hypersonic missile called avant-garde. The rocket propulsion can go up to Mach 27.

So far there are four countries that have claimed to have tested hypersonic missiles: the United States, China, Russia and North Korea.

This year has been very interesting in the world of modern military technology, of which the United States and its Western allies are also concerned. Because Russia, China and North Korea have claimed to have developed missile systems along with hypersonic vehicles that have the full power to go undetected on the United States’ radar. It means that the United States has no technology or antidote for Asian hypersonic. Hypersonic technology has the potential to be one of the fastest and most accurate weapons in the world, and if one can fit a nuclear warhead, it will be one of the most advanced weapons technology in the world, in addition to these four countries. France, Germany, Australia, India and Japan are working on hypersonic and Iran, Israel and South Korea have done basic research on the technology. The race is going to be started on every continent.

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Sino-Indian race:

India has also developed hypersonic technology as it is now a hypersonic vehicle. All India has to do is install ICBM on a cruise missile like BrahMos or Agni on a hypersonic vehicle which will work. Whether China has hypersonic missiles or not, the important thing is that the two countries have the capability to hit each other with nuclear weapons even without hypersonic missiles. Already embroiled in border issues, India will devote its energies to developing hypersonic missiles. This will make South Asia more stable in the future.




Shifting power: The question of the US capability:

For a long time, the United States has dominated world politics militarily, economically and culturally, which the United States also calls its hegemony. But now with the development of military technology, having three of the four recipients from Asia changes the balance of military power as well as global politics. The United States, China, Russia and North Korea are claiming to have hypersonic missile systems and three of them are Asian countries and they are not friendly to the United States. If they, get together the balance of power can be drawn because the United States has not yet developed a system that can defend against the ability to track and shoot down hypersonic missiles. Once other nations acquire this hypersonic technology, then the United States will have some hypersonic allies, then the next challenge will be who will develop a system that can defend itself from hypersonic missiles or reach high altitudes. Currently, the US is very concerned about its position.

The race between Russia and US:

The U.S. Department of Defense has an aggressive development program that plans up to 40 tests over the next five years at a cost of more than $1 billion annually in hypersonic research, according to a government report. The Soviet Union has always been in armed Race since the Cold War era, for example, under Operation Paper Clip, more than 1600 German scientists, engineers and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the United States after the end of World War II between 1945 and 1959 who worked as government employees for the US. Even Russia did so. The operation is called Operation Osoaviakhim, where the Soviet Union took 2,200 German scientists, engineers and technicians and forced them to work for the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the two superpowers spent a huge bulk of their GDP on developing military technologies. Nazi Germany was also the most advanced than the United States and the Soviet Union. It developed a jet engine; Henkel H-178 was in fact the first aircraft in the world to fly under turbojet power and the first practical jet. Thus, the United States and Russia have always been in an arms race since the Cold War. Recently, there was a cyber attack in the United States in December last year, the Solar Winds hack, one of the most recent hacks ever made. It was one of the most sophisticated hacks ever done. Microsoft was the first company that came to know about it and as per the US government, the Russian intelligence was behind it. This time, there would be no exception.

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US-China rivalry:

Recently the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100th anniversary as usual. leader xi Jinping spoke on it he said that the Chinese communist party will turn china into the biggest player in the history of the world when such a statement comes, the next common question that comes to mind is whether it can do that without clashing with the United States because the United States also wants to be the biggest player in the world. Under China's 2049 policy, China wants to be a global superpower by 2049. You may have seen how countries are increasing naval power. The 21st century is going to be the toughest.

Thus the race for the new hypersonic missile is set to shape world politics and create a highly uncertain and unbalanced world.