Why are hypersonic missiles dangerous?

 

North Korea has said that the country has successfully tested another hypersonic missile under the supervision of the country's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.

According to North Korea's state news agency KCNA, the missile was tested on Tuesday and it landed on its target "precisely" 1,000 kilometers away.

KCNA later said it was a hypersonic missile capable of hitting "extremely fast".

It is being said that North Korea has tested a missile for the third time that can survive the radar's sight compared to a ballistic missile. Within a week of Kim Jong-un's New Year's new year's speech, the country conducted two missile tests.

In November last year, something like a rocket was seen flying in China's sky at a very high speed. After circling almost the entire earth, it reportedly fell about 40 kilometers before its target.

According to experts, it was a new type of hypersonic missile, although China has denied it.

But it is also true that missiles that are running many times faster than the speed of sound have caused an arms race between the US, China and Russia. Now North Korea has also joined the race.

So this week's investigation into the world's world about what hypersonic missiles are and why can they be a cause for concern for us?

Rocket Science

Dr. Gustav Gressel has served at the Austrian Ministry of Defense and is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs.

He says that the older the history of war is, the older it is to attack by throwing things in the air. In earlier times, there were weapons such as giant slingshots and cannons to throw stones or iron balls.

The feeling that the engine could throw things far and wide with more power gave rise to missile technology. In the 1930s, this technology was further improved by Germany.

"During the era of Germany's Reichswehr, work was done on developing rocket or missile technology," says Gressel. Germany wanted to build a new weapon. For this, he gathered thousands of scientists and overcame most of the engineering hurdles associated with this technology."

The Treaty of Warsaya, which concluded at the end of The First World War, prohibited Germany from having an air force and developing military technology. But there was nothing to say about rocket technology because the technology was not developed at the time.

Germany began work on it and had developed new weapons until the end of The Second World War.

Germany built the world's first largest and most modern weapons research center at a place near the Baltic Sea where the Pine River meets the Baltic Sea. At this place, he could get a testing range of 400 kilometers.