China Developing New Hypersonic Missile Capable of Striking Cars in Transit

A Long March 5B rocket lifts off from the Wenchang launch site on China's southern Hainan island on May 5, 2020. Another variant of the Long March rocket was used to get China's hypersonic missile into orbit in July. STR/AFP via Getty Images

China’s communist regime is reportedly developing a new hypersonic weapon that’s accurate enough to target a moving passenger vehicle while flying at five times the speed of sound.

A research team at the Chinese military’s PLA Rocket Force University of Engineering has said it was making “important progress” toward developing a heat-seeking missile capable of extreme accuracy at hypersonic speeds, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a paper published in Chinese peer-reviewed journal Infrared and Laser Engineering.