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Chinese PLA Released a Video of its DF-17 Hypersonic Missile

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Chinese PLA Released a Video of its DF-17 Hypersonic Missile Chinese PLA Released a Video of its DF-17 Hypersonic Missile The People’s Liberation Army has now released footage of its DF-17 hypersonic missile. China released a video of what appeared to be a DF-17 missile launch for the first time, just before the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s 95th founding anniversary on August 1, Chinese-run state media Global Times reported. China Central Television (CCTV) presented a documentary on July 30 called, the Chinese experts said the video showed the adaptability of the nearly impossible-to-intercept “aircraft carrier killer” weapon. Military enthusiasts were particularly drawn to a scene in the video showing a live-fire launch of a missile from a transporter erector launcher on a highway in the desert. They claimed the missile resembled the DF-17 hypersonic missile, which was on display in public at the National Day military parade on October 1, 2019, in Beijing. China’s hypersonic wea...
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US F-35s Ejection Seat Issue, All F-35s are Temporarily Grounded Worldwide

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US F-35s Ejection Seat Issue, All F-35s are Temporarily Grounded Worldwide The U.S. military discovered a problem with the ejection seats used across its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet in April but waited three months to ground those aircraft flown by the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps to fully investigate the issue. An ongoing investigation sourced the issue to the production line, prompting waves of temporary stand-downs this week. “During a routine maintenance inspection at Hill, Air Force Base, Utah, in April ‘22, an issue was discovered with one of the seat cartridge actuated devices in the F-35 seat,” Steve Roberts, a spokesperson for seat manufacturer Martin Baker, said Friday. Cartridges are the ejection seat component that explodes to propel an aviator out of the cockpit and prompts their parachute to open. The defective part was loose and missing the magnesium powder used to ignite the propellant that shoots someone to safety, Roberts said. The military tested 2,700 F-35 ...
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