On January 10th, 2022, North Korea tested a second ballistic missile within a week. In response, the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) ordered a ground stop potentially national but also potentially only on the West Coast of all air traffic and monitoring groups immediately began to discuss the specifics of the test. Shortly after the missile impacted the sea of Japan, the ground stop was lifted and specifics started coming out including the fact that this missile flew at Mach 10, twice the threshold needed to be considered hypersonic. As expected, these monitoring groups along with OSINT (Open-source intelligence) groups began discussing the realities of this advanced weapon existing in the NK arsonal. Before going any further, it should be stated that the United States, Russia, China, and a few other nations have been working on hypersonic technologies for a while. It should also be stated that at the time of writing this article, the United States has not had much success if any at testing a hypersonic missile platform.
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The Nuclear Threat That is Ignored
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On January 10th, 2022, North Korea tested a second ballistic missile within a week. In response, the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) ordered a ground stop potentially national but also potentially only on the West Coast of all air traffic and monitoring groups immediately began to discuss the specifics of the test. Shortly after the missile impacted the sea of Japan, the ground stop was lifted and specifics started coming out including the fact that this missile flew at Mach 10, twice the threshold needed to be considered hypersonic. As expected, these monitoring groups along with OSINT (Open-source intelligence) groups began discussing the realities of this advanced weapon existing in the NK arsonal. Before going any further, it should be stated that the United States, Russia, China, and a few other nations have been working on hypersonic technologies for a while. It should also be stated that at the time of writing this article, the United States has not had much success if any at testing a hypersonic missile platform.