{"id":143983,"date":"2021-10-29T19:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=143983"},"modified":"2021-10-29T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:38:33","slug":"explained-agni-icbm-vs-chinas-hypersonic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-agni-icbm-vs-chinas-hypersonic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Agni (ICBM) vs China\u2019s Hypersonic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Recently, India has successfully test-fired Agni-V Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Moreover, China has also recently tested a new hypersonic Glide missile.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Agni V?<\/b><\/p>\n

Agni-V is a surface-to-surface nuclear-capable <\/span>InterContinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click Here to Read more about Agni V<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What is a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle that China tested?<\/b><\/h5>\n

A hypersonic glide vehicle is launched by a rocket that moves in the Earth\u2019s lower orbit. It is launched at more than five times to 25 times the speed of sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The vehicle is capable of carrying nuclear payloads, which gives the launching country the strategic capacity to attack almost any target across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: China tested \u2018nuclear capable hypersonic missile\u2019, says report<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How is a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle different from an ICBM?<\/b><\/h5>\n

ICBM follows a parabolic trajectory, which means it goes up and then comes down in a high arc\u2014like throwing up a ball.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand,\u00a0 hypersonic glide vehicles orbit the earth at a lower height and are manoeuvrable. The ability to change track or target, mid-trajectory, along with the speed, makes them tougher to track and defend against.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, hypersonic missiles can travel approximately 5,000 to 25,000 km per hour, which makes them six to over 25 times faster than modern commercial aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, the mix of the high altitude, high speed and manoeuvrability of hypersonic missiles can potentially provide them to use in-flight updates to attack a different target than originally planned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cExplained: Agni (ICBM) vs China\u2019s Hypersonic missile\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>\u201cIndian Express\u201d on 28th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? Recently, India has successfully test-fired Agni-V Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Moreover, China has also recently tested a new hypersonic Glide missile. What is Agni V? Agni-V is a surface-to-surface nuclear-capable InterContinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Click Here to Read more about Agni V What is a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle that China tested?… Continue reading Explained: Agni (ICBM) vs China\u2019s Hypersonic missile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}