WARP SPEED: NORTH Korea has become the latest country to add terrifying hypersonic missiles to its arsenal, joining the China, Russia and the US.

All are now in an arms race to develop the nuke-capable weapons, with Russia boasting it has one that can fly at nearly 21,000mph and can hit anywhere in "minutes".

Hypersonic missiles are a game changer because unlike ballistic missiles, which fly into space before returning on steep trajectories, they zoom in on targets at lower altitudes.

This combined with typical speeds of five times the speed of sound – or around 4,000mph – makes them extremely hard to shoot down and a potent weapon more countries want to get their hands on.

China - followed closely by Russia - are regarded as having the most potent hypersonic missile arsenals pouring billions into them but others are catching up.

Announcing that it had joined the hypersonic club, Kim Jong-un’s regime said that it had launched a missile named the Hwasong-8.

North Korea’s news agency said its development of the weapons increases North Korea's defence capabilities a “thousand fold”.

It comes after, North Korea stoked World War Three fears after launching two ballistic missiles just two days after it claimed it was testing new weapons on Wednesday.

The test means North Korea is entering an accelerating race to deploy the weapon now involving the United States, Russia and China.

The firing of its missiles comes just a day after it was announced US tested its own hypersonic weapon after stepping up development in the wake of Chinese and Russian advances.

The free flight test of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept occurred last week, said the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

Unlike the public shows made by its rivals, the US has shrouded the test in secrecy with details like its range kept under wraps.

"Investments in hypersonic strike have begun to pay dividends, answering the progress already made by the likes of Russia and China," said Tom Karako, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

A key part of the hypersonic missile concept is the glide vehicle, which is carried to around 30 miles above the earth by a rocket but then becomes detached. The glide vehicle then hurtles to earth using gravity.

ARMS RACE
Earlier this year, the Russian military announced it had tested a hypersonic missile it claimed was capable of evading all Western defences.

The deadly Zircon was unleashed at a speed of Mach 7 at a land target from the frigate Admiral Gorshkov in the White Sea off the northwest coast of Russia.

The Zircon has been identified by Moscow’s state-controlled TV as Putin’s weapon of choice to wipe out coastal American cities in the event of a nuclear conflict.

TERRIFYING SPEED

Among its hypersonic missiles is the DF-26, which state media boasted can reach a top speed of 18 times faster than the speed of sound.

It is capable of travelling far enough to blitz the US territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

The missile can carry conventional or nuclear warheads, and one variant is said to be able to take out carrier groups in the open ocean.

China also announced it's developing a hypersonic weapon designed to generate an intense electromagnetic pulse that would wipe out communication and power supply lines.

The missile, which has a range of 2,000 miles and can travel at six times the speed of sound, is designed to create a chemical explosion over a city and cripple it within seconds.

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Awwww Armageddon is here

Hallelujah....

Okay

All these show off, to what end?

OK n

Righteousness2:
The Signals and signs we see on Earth today is what you see when a Storm is set to arrive.

A Storm is coming on this World that will Shake the World and its inhabitants to its Foundation.

At this Point in time , if you still do not Know that we are at the end, it is too late For you.

Time is Almost up! Get your House in order!
It is either you Accept JESUS Now and Escape what is Coming or you refuse and get left behind to face the Horror on Earth.

JESUS is Coming Quickly! If you Miss the Rapture, I am Sorry for you.

If you Have Ears to Hear! You should Hear.

As usual, the fake pastor has scoured the internet for doomsday news and posted it with his alternate moniker, and then he has logged in with his main account to spew his usual gibberish.

The goal of all this is to deceive nairalanders into thinking that his fake apocalyptic stories are true, after the mind-bending disgrace he faced due to his several failed prophecies like "COVID being the end of the world" and "Donald Trump winning the U.S elections against all odds". He knows that if he opens these doomsday threads with his main moniker "Righteousness2", people will know that he deliberately ransacks the net for such news, so what does he do? He employs deception by using his alternate accounts like: Holinessforever, Holiness2100, and GospelPreacher to post them.

The "gospel" is supposed to be the good news of Jesus Christ, not FEAR MONGERING. To what aim is he doing all this then? I don't know. But what I know for a fact is that deception cannot be used to propagate the gospel. Deception and the Word of God don't mix!

Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.. That's a lyrics from 2pac's song Changes..

If people like 2pac, Bob Marley or even Fella were alive today they would have sang about these nonsense the world leaders are doing..

Yeah music can effect a change like that by impacting the souls of these leaders to think passionately towards human's welfare..

Michael Jackson in his Heal the world lyrics said "there are people dying if you care about the living"

Let's make the world a better place, World Leaders..

North Korea be giving other countries headache.

Peace is all we want in our world �

And we are still confused on how to fight kidnappers and bandits

I fear two people on Nairaland.

One has four Nairaland monikers and is a self- acclaimed pastor who posts stuff he knows little or nothing about and uses it to preach and instill fear into his gullible followers.
He has never discussed the fruits of the flesh and that of the holy spirit. He is not versed in matters affecting the christian faith.
He knows nothing about rapture. God cannot rapture a people with spot or wrinkles.
He said COVID will end the world. He lied.
He said Trump will win the election. The man himself caused an insurrection at the Capitol. He lied.



The other grills a meat that resembles chicken in the dark. But it is actually a bird with bald head and is notorious in consuming dead animals.
Kelvin Carter, an award winning photojournalist once captured this bird standing close to a dying child who has suffered malnutrition in a war torn country. He went ahead to win the pulitzer prize for that photo.



I don't know who is more dangerous between the two!

K

OGUN KILL THE MOD WEY BAN ME

All of these weapons just for the purpose of killing one another. It is well

to what end are all these acquisitions?

the rocket man north Korean president has made it again

Humans creating things that will cause bodily harms and death to fellow humans just to prove supremacy.


Animals will never destroy their World we call ourselves "homosapiens" but ironically we are not "sapiens" we are not wise at all.
If we were wise we wouldn't need all these weapons of mass destruction.

Ike gwuru

Magnumproperty:
to what end is all this acquisition?

I tire.....

When are we going to test our own in Nigeria

blazetitov:
All of these weapons just for the purpose of killing one another. It is well

Ike gwuru.....

unrighteousness2 and ugliness forever on the beat

Who will win this race? I bought this space for my endtime pastor incase he got here late

It's very very good SO USA will not turn them to Afghanistan. but Russia na mad country all the their intentions is to create fear in the mind of US na almost all their weapons can reach Us soil

The best way to sleep with your two eyes closed as a Country is to acquire The Nuclear Weapon, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and Hypersonic Missiles. The Western Imperialists cannot ne trusted.
Nice one from the NORTH.

So only three countries in world have hypersonic missiles and US isn't one of them..
As for North Korea hypersonic missiles it isn't completely ok yet from the info gotten from South Korea military but they are getting there

HolinessForever:
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Nigeria will test it's own soon