China Making Hypersonic Drones and Carrier Planes for those Drones to Compete with US Stratolaunch
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6ZKYZ)
China (via SCMP - South China Morning Post) is developing a carrier plane that will launch shorter range hypersonic drones. The planes would likely be subsonic but would launch the drones that will eventually be able to go over mach 5. China is looking at scissor wing technology (which the US examined in the 1970s) ...