Korea has publicly displayed the Hwasong-11戊 hypersonic missile with a waverider warhead at the military parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. Its appearance is very similar to the DF-17. Considering North Korea's technological capabilities, it is quite remarkable that they have developed such an advanced hypersonic missile.
America should just buy a block of tofu and hit itself with it upon seeing the Hwasong-11戊. Because up to now, America has not yet successfully developed a hypersonic missile.
However, North Korea's basic industry is relatively poor. For example, they do not have a hypersonic wind tunnel, and their electronic technology is also quite backward. Therefore, the Hwasong-11戊 is likely independently designed by North Korea based on publicly available hypersonic missile waverider designs, but it has not undergone rigorous flight testing, and its reliability is questionable.
The backwardness of electronic technology may result in insufficient terminal guidance capability for this missile. In addition, North Korea does not have a satellite navigation system. Hypersonic missiles rely on inertial navigation during mid-flight, which accumulates large errors, and using open GPS to correct these errors is not satisfactory. Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation system could provide navigation for North Korean hypersonic missiles, but the coverage and navigation accuracy of GLONASS are not impressive.
Hypersonic missiles with waverider design have limited warhead capacity, so they require extremely high precision. If the accuracy of the Hwasong-11戊 is not good, then its striking power will be greatly reduced.
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