{"id":27256,"date":"2018-12-28T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27256"},"modified":"2018-12-28T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:22:11","slug":"is-a-new-hyper-sonic-arms-race-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27256","title":{"rendered":"Is a new hyper-sonic arms race underway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82\">\n<p>President Putin says Russia will soon be the first to deploy &#8216;invincible&#8217; hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Avangard weapon guarantees Russian security for decades to come. Supersonic is slow compared to hypersonic.<\/p>\n<p>Flying at many times the speed of sound, they&#8217;re are designed to evade missile shield systems to strike anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s test-firing hasn&#8217;t been independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>But with the United States, China &#8211; and possibly others &#8211; developing similar technology, how big a threat are the new, high speed weapons?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests: <\/strong><\/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<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Putin says Russia will soon be the first to deploy &#8216;invincible&#8217; hypersonic missiles. He says the Avangard weapon guarantees Russian security for decades to come. Supersonic is slow compared to hypersonic. Flying at many times the speed of sound, they&#8217;re are designed to evade missile shield systems to strike anywhere in the world. Wednesday&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27256","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\/27256","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=27256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}