The situation in the Middle East has become very tense, and the confrontation between Iran and Israel, the two great powers in the Middle East, has shown us the most powerful spear and shield in the world today, although both sides claim to have won the showdown by a large margin.
But from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has been fought for two years, it is not difficult for us to see that the advanced air defense networks of Europe and the United States can play a very limited role in the face of hypersonic missiles.
Actual combat is the only criterion for testing the combat effectiveness of the troops, and actual combat is also the only criterion for testing the performance of aircraft, and the wars and conflicts that have occurred around the world in recent years can bring a lot of reference and inspiration to the PLA!
The status quo of the world's two major missile schools!
Although the United States is the proposer of hypersonic missiles, they have not succeeded in developing hypersonic missiles for so many years, and most of the long-range missiles in the United States today are covert.
For example, the air-launched AGM-158B and the land-based Tomahawk long-range cruise missile in the United States are subsonic cruise guided missiles that try to be as concealed as possible at the expense of speed.
But in the face of countries with anti-stealth radars and high-performance radars, such subsonic stealth cruise missiles are very easy to intercept, and the hit rate of their missiles will become quite impressive!
In fact, this was evident in the recent confrontation between Iran and Israel, where some of the subsonic cruise missiles or stealth cruise missiles launched by Iran at Israel did not penetrate Israel's air defense network.
After talking about the hidden long-range missiles of the United States, let's talk about the speed type represented by China, as we all know, China is definitely a big country with hypersonic missiles, China has many different types of hypersonic missiles, Dongfeng series Eagle Strike series and Long Sword, are famous in the world.
Of course, in addition to China, Russia, Iran, and other countries now also have a number of hypersonic missiles with superior performance! After more than two years of Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia has basically used all the precision-guided weapons that Russia can use, and finally Russia has summed up an astonishing figure.
On the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, the interception rate of ordinary cruise missiles launched by Russia is about 70%, while the interception rate of hypersonic missiles will drop to about 30%, like the famous Zircon hypersonic missile in Russia today, the number of interceptions may still be in the single digits.
And when Iran used missiles to launch an attack on Israel, Iran claimed that almost all of their hypersonic missiles broke through the enemy's air defense network, which fully proves that Israel's Rocket 3 and the American Patriot 3 claim to be able to intercept Mach 9 or even Mach 10 hypersonic missiles are basically false data.
If the United States does not have hypersonic missile technology today, how can they intercept missiles that they cannot manufacture? The so-called interception technology of the United States and Israel is nothing more than a matter of calculating the trajectory of hypersonic missiles and launching missiles in advance to intercept them as if they were lucky, but as long as the missiles change their orbits or attack routes slightly, these interceptions will instantly fail!
Why are China's hypersonic missiles unique in the world?
Now, judging from the actual test on the battlefield, hypersonic missiles are indeed more difficult to intercept than cruise missiles, so although the United States has the world's most advanced stealth cruise missiles, they are still trying their best to develop supersonic cruise missiles!
China is the owner of the world's most advanced hypersonic cruise missile, so what is unique about China's hypersonic missile?
Speaking of actual combat, we have to mention the Red Sea conflict derived from the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, where the Houthis now launch anti-ship missiles into the Red Sea every day to attack passing merchant ships.
But careful friends may have discovered that the anti-ship missiles used by the Houthis to attack US warships have almost no hit rate at all, and all anti-ship missiles can be effectively intercepted by the United States.
In fact, those who know the inside story will find that these anti-ship missiles launched by the Houthis are basically subsonic missiles, although these missiles have a certain degree of accurate positioning ability, but in the face of the United States' air defense fire network almost no penetration ability, so being intercepted is basically a sure thing.
Whether it is a hypersonic missile or an anti-ship missile, the reason why China believes that it is difficult to intercept is actually because we have two unique martial arts secrets, one of which is the erratic Qian Xuesen ballistics of China's hypersonic missile.
The second is the ultra-high terminal penetration speed of China's hypersonic missiles, and Qian Xuesen's ballistics guarantee that China's missile routes cannot be calculated, so whether it is the American Patriot 3 or the Israeli Rocket 3, they cannot intercept the missiles by calculating them, because in addition to the targets to be hit, even China cannot determine how our missiles will fly!
And the ultra-high penetration speed at the end ensures that the US air defense missiles will not be able to catch the traces of our missiles at all without calculating the trajectory.
At the same time, the unique optical targeting system in Chinese missiles, as well as China's communication technology to break through the black barrier, can ensure that our hypersonic missiles can accurately hit the target!