{"id":27244,"date":"2018-12-28T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27244"},"modified":"2018-12-28T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:22:28","slug":"is-a-new-hypersonic-arms-race-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27244","title":{"rendered":"Is a new hypersonic arms race underway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"78.8225165563\">\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/vladimir-putin.html\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> will soon be first to deploy &#8216;invincible&#8217; hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Avangard weapon guarantees Russian security for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>Supersonic is slow compared with hypersonic.<\/p>\n<p>Flying at many times the speed of sound, they&#8217;re are designed to evade missile shield systems to attack anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s test-firing hasn&#8217;t been independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>But with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/china.html\">China<\/a> &#8211; and possibly others &#8211; developing similar technology, how big a threat are the new, high speed weapons?<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Tarif Rauf &#8211; Nuclear arms control specialist<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Felgenhauer &#8211; Russian defence analyst<\/p>\n<p>Richard Weitz &#8211; director, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin says Russia will soon be first to deploy &#8216;invincible&#8217; hypersonic missiles. He says the Avangard weapon guarantees Russian security for decades to come. Supersonic is slow compared with hypersonic. Flying at many times the speed of sound, they&#8217;re are designed to evade missile shield systems to attack anywhere in the world. Wednesday&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}