What is its weight, what is its payload and what is the cost of the fuel needed to propel it to hypersonic speeds?

If it’s not five nines then I’m not interested.

Hypersonic has a big weakness--good luck building a seeker that can function hypersonic. And most of that flight will be effectively outside the atmosphere--no midcourse adjustments. If you're standing still that's irrelevant, but if you can move that's a big issue. And how many Chinesium rocket motors will explode on ignition, blowing up whatever is doing the shooting.

Damn, can you imagine how quickly Aliexpress orders are gonna arrive now?

If they're that cheap they can probably afford to cry wolf with them. Get people used to seeing unarmed missles flown in to random places, where the possible damage doesn't justify trying to shoot them down, then suddenly start putting explosives onboard.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305736

No idea why a story about a YC company was flagged.

>"A Chinese company is in production of a hypersonic missile, with a sticker price comparable to that of a luxury sedan"

Well they've perfected manufacturing at scale. I see no surprise here.

Amazing! Yet another life destroying invention. What could go wrong?

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