China announced the successful test of its YJ-20 hypersonic missile, launched from a Type 055 destroyer. According to Beijing, the missile has a range of about 1,500 km, carries a 400-kg warhead, and can reach speeds of up to 10 times the speed of sound.

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Man, they really sling that up from the VLS. Exhaust is too hot to be thermally managed from the cell.

Fascinating how the US has not demonstrated any effective hypersonic anything yet

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