The report, produced by the J-2 intelligence arms of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, was part of a cache of classified documents leaked in recent months by a 21-year-old National Guard airman.
The Feb. 28 report, labeled “top-secret,” states that three days earlier the Chinese military conducted a flight test of a new DF-27 missile, known as the CSS-X-24 by NATO. The missile is described as an intermediate-range, ballistic missile-class, “multi-role” hypersonic glide vehicle, or HGV.
Hypersonic missiles fly at speeds faster than Mach 5 or 3,836 miles per hour and are capable of maneuvering on the way to targets, posing a challenge for existing missile defense systems.
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