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JamaliahYusofYacob - China berjaya melaksanakan ujian penerbangan kelajuan tinggi muslihat kepala peledak ‘state-of-the-art’ minggu lalu, sumber-sumber dalam Pentagon berkata. percubaan itu berlaku hanya beberapa hari selepas glider hipersonik dilaporkan diuji oleh Rusia.
DF-ZF kenderaan meluncur hipersonik adalah pelancaran pada hari Jumaat oleh peluru berpandu balistik yang dilancarkan dari tapak Wuzhai di tengah China, pegawai-pegawai tentera yang tidak dinamakan Amerika Syarikat kepada laman web ‘Washington Free Beacon website’.
Muslihat glider telah dikesan oleh satelit Amerika kerana ia bergerak pada kelajuan beberapa ribu kilometer sejam sepanjang pinggir suasana ke arah kawasan kesan di barat negara ini, kata sumber.
Ia adalah percubaan udara kenderaan meluncur Cina yang ke-7, dengan 6 ujian sebelumnya yang dijalankan pada tahun 2014 dan 2015 juga telah berjaya.
China successfully tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile - Pentagon sources
China successfully carried out a flight test of its state-of-the-art high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, sources in the Pentagon said. The trial took place just days after a hypersonic glider was reportedly tested by Russia.
The DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was launch on Friday by a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai site in central China, unnamed US military officials told the Washington Free Beacon website.
The maneuvering glider was tracked by American satellites as it was traveling at the speed of several thousand kilometers per hour along the edge of the atmosphere towards an impact area in the west of the country, the sources said.
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Menurut ‘Washington Free Beacon’, kebimbangan perisikan Amerika Syarikat bahawa Beijing boleh menggunakan DF-ZF (dahulunya diberi nama kod WU-14 oleh Pentagon), mampu mencapai kelajuan lebih 11,000 kilometer sejam, untuk menghantar senjata nuklear memintas peluru berpandu sistem pertahanan yang paling kompleks.
Buaian juga boleh menjadi sebahagian daripada senjata serangan strategik konvensional yang membolehkan China untuk memukul sasaran mana-mana sahaja di DUNIA dalam masa hanya satu jam.
Kenderaan Glide terangkat ke atmosfera atas tinggi oleh peluru berpandu balistik dan kemudian meluncur pada kelajuan 5 kali lebih cepat daripada kelajuan bunyi.
Jurucakap Pentagon, Komander. Rang Undang-Undang Bandar, enggan mengulas mengenai ujian segar peledak muslihat China, tetapi menegaskan bahawa tentera Amerika Syarikat "yang berhati-hati memantau pemodenan tentera China."
Pengerusi Dewan Angkatan Bersenjata Jawatankuasa Kecil Seapower, Randy Forbes, memberitahu Washington Percuma Beacon bahawa dia bimbang dengan ujian Cina.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, US intelligence fears that Beijing may use DF-ZF (formerly codenamed WU-14 by the Pentagon), capable of reaching speeds of over 11,000 kilometers per hour, to deliver nuclear weapons bypassing even the most complex of missile defense systems.
The glider could also become a part of a conventional strategic strike weapon that would enable China to hit targets anywhere in the world within just an hour.
Glide vehicles are lifted to the high upper atmosphere by ballistic missiles and then glide at speeds five times faster than the speed of sound.
Pentagon spokesman, Cmdr. Bill Urban, declined to comment on the fresh Chinese maneuvering warhead test, but stressed that the US military “do monitor Chinese military modernization carefully.”
Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, Randy Forbes, told the Washington Free Beacon that he’s worried by the Chinese tests.
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"Ujian berulang China kenderaan meluncur hipersonik menunjukkan Beijing komited untuk rampasan ketenteraan konvensional dan keseimbangan nuklear, dengan implikasi kubur untuk kestabilan Asia," kata Forbes.
Pada 22 April, Russian Strategik Missile Angkatan dijalankan pelancaran yang antara benua peluru berpandu balistik (ICBM), menguji peluru berpandu pelayaran hipersonik.
Satu sumber Interfax berkata pelancaran itu dari tempat pelancaran peluru berpandu di Wilayah Orenburg di sempadan dengan Kazakhstan adalah satu kejayaan.
Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia enggan mengulas mengenai laporan mengenai apa yang dipercayai menjadi ujian glider hipersonik yang ke-2 Moscow.
Pada pertengahan April, pengarah Agensi Pertahanan Peluru Berpandu Pentagon, James Syring, memberitahu Senat Amerika Syarikat bahawa kedua-dua negara, nama-nama yang dia tidak mendedahkan, menimbulkan ancaman peluru berpandu hipersonik yang semakin meningkat.
Walau bagaimanapun, ‘Washington Free Beacon’ memberi amaran bahawa Pentagon "melakukan sedikit untuk berurusan dengan ancaman peluru berpandu hipersonik yang baru muncul."
“China’s repeated test of a hypersonic glide vehicle demonstrates Beijing is committed to upending both the conventional military and nuclear balance, with grave implications for the stability of Asia,”Forbes said.
On April 22, Russian Strategic Missile Forces conducted an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, testing a hypersonic cruise missile.
An Interfax source said that the launch from a missile deployment area in the Orenburg Region on the border with Kazakhstan was a success.
The Russian Defense Ministry declined to comment on reports about what is believed to be Moscow’s second hypersonic glider test.
In mid-April, the director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, James Syring, told the US Senate that two countries, the names of which he didn’t reveal, pose a growing hypersonic missile threat.
However, the Washington Free Beacon warns that the Pentagon “is doing little to deal with the emerging hypersonic missile threat.”
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The Missile Defense Agency has not funded any direct programs to counter hypersonic arms in its 2017 fiscal budget of $7.5 billion.
This year, it asked for funds to work on a low-powered laser to target hypersonic missiles, but its tests will only start in 2021 when China’s DF-ZF will likely already be in service, the website stressed.
