YKJ-1000 is a low-cost mass-scalable hypersonic glide missile unveiled in Nov 2025 by Beijing-based private firm Lingkong Tianxing. It uses a booster + glide vehicle with extra engines, civilian-grade materials like foamed concrete heat shielding, automotive chips, and commercial supply chains.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3334933/chinas-dirt-cheap-hypersonic-missiles-could-upend-global-defence-markets-state-mediaKey specs:Speed: Mach 7Range: 1,300 kmPowered flight: up to 6 minutesContainerized launcher (shipping-container like, mobile, land/sea deployable)Autonomous targeting/maneuvering; mass-produced after testsUnit cost claimed 700,000 yuan ($99k), 1/50th-1/60th traditional systems.Why it could end the era of exposed US bases & carriers:This democratizes hypersonics: cheap, producible in volume by private firms using dual-use tech. Traditional US interceptors (SM-6 $4M+, THAAD $15M) become economically unsustainable against salvos - attackers can saturate defenses at low cost (classic cost-exchange asymmetry flipped).Container launchers hide easily among civilian traffic, enabling rapid, dispersed deployment by any buyer (states or proxies). US forward bases in Pacific, carriers in littoral waters, and allied assets become vulnerable to cheap, fast, maneuvering threats within 800+ miles - hard to defend at scale.Company claims and Chinese media highlight high scalability using civilian assembly lines, automotive-grade parts, and commercial supply chains. One report notes production can reach up to 10,000 units/month on assembly lines, illustrating the designs potential for volume output.https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3571221840903046120,000 hypersonic missiles a year with $99k price tag. Crazy shit xDFor comparison Russia produces 20-40 hypersonic missiles a month (Zircon/Kinzhal/Oreshnik). Kinzhal costs $5M, Zircon - $6M and Oreshnik $30M
>>536559583Cool. Too bad we spent all our money in the US on chatbots.
US Dark Eagle : 1700 miles range, 30 lb payload , 5 Mach speed. Cost $41 million each. Production : 12 units a year.Chinese YKJ : 800 miles range, 1000 lb payload, 7 Mach speed. Cost $99000 each. Production: tens of thousands units a year.
>>536560593>30 lb payloadDark Eagle (LRHW) relies primarily on kinetic energy from its hypersonic speed for destructive effect. The glide body itself acts like a high-velocity penetrator/impactor. They use only 13kg of explosives to save money, otherwise this missile would cost even more than $40M xD
>>536559583>120,000 hypersonic missiles a year with $99k price tag. Crazy shit xDOk, seriously. How do I learn mandarin. I see where this is going.
>>536559583There is no way that thing costs $99k to launch. Maybe if you don't include the booster, but that's meaningless since it needs a booster to launch.
As long as china promises me affordable housing, slavery in non diverse shitskin free society and protection from anglo-saxon faggotry, I'm ready to welcome my new chinese masters.
>>536559583>dirty cheap mass-produced hypersonic gliders from China>99knah, that's too expensive, especially for chinese shit.make it 2-5k and you may have a good, jihadi product to use against the US, otherwise it will be too expensive and a liability (chinkshit)
It's true.
>>536560593US dark eagle: quality control, warranty from seller, actually reusableChinkshit: shit, one time use, 3 out of 5 will work out of the box, out of the three 1 will explode before deployment.
>>536559583Like anyone cares about Hypersonic missiles in an era of ai enabled bioweapons xD
>>53655958399k sounds about right for the cost to roll out, deploy, prepare, launch and then roll everything back to base. The booster alone is going to be at least 10 times that cost, and the vehicle seems very unlikely to be that low to produce.
>>536561443Praise Chinese Jesus!
chinese slop
>>536563186China has active strategic intercontinental hypersonic nuclear-capable weapon programs too, but it is completely different stuff. We are talking here about ultra-cheap gliders mass produced from dual-use civilian components by a private company for needs of the global weapkn market.
>>536563585its the exact same thingchinks just put it on a weaker rocket
>>536560593>US Dark EagleHas yet to deliver a prototype engine that even achieves the advertised Mach 5 cope speed.>>536562286>There is no way that thing costs $99k to launch.Labor is a major cost in everything and compounds as a problem as supply lines lengthen. China has a 90% homeownership rate, and CPI is low enough that a truly wretched NEET can retire at 28. In Western MIC, high price tag is an actual objective of the government. In China, low price tag is the objective. Also consider the difference in availability of skilled, educated workers. So it's entirely believable that China and Russia's MIC costs are 1/10 that of the US.
from the animations and info online you can see the chinese plan to use it on a carrier group (aka on the us) headed their way to perform a blockade while the russians designed it in the first place before the chinks copied it so it can evade missile shield installations allowing it to reach its target, not for war against the us directly
>>536563907Bullshit. DF-41 ICBM with HGV payload (15.000 km range) costs $25M, thats because it is made of expensive materials, and serves completely different purpose. You cant compare cheap commercial gliders to strategic HGV weapons
>>536564119its literally the same thing just cheap chinky parts
Currently the USA has 3 aircraft carriers under construction....$60 billion or more???kek They're like WWI generals, Aug 1914, trained to fight a Napoleonic style war, incapable of coming to terms with the new reality.
>>536559876>Cool. Too bad we spent all our money in the US on chatbots.oh fuck haha
>>536559583Seems like a good weapon. Look out.
>>536559583Because Chinese ADs worked so well in Venezuela and Iran kekEvery weapon China makes is overhyped and always end up being shit, quite the opposite to American technologies
>>536559583thats some delusional cope and i had to check, turns out the company likes spamming out nonsense about some new breaking tech on a quarterly basis to scam investors that never actually gets built. They have no revenue to speak of or the facilities to even build these if they were real.
>>536559583glide that shit straight into my ass daddy
>>536564395There is/was no Chinese AD systems in Venezuela/Iran. We can observe quality and effectiveness of US-American AD systems everyday in Kiev and since February 2026 also in the Middle East. I have rather mixed feelings, delicately speaking xD
>>536564395venezuela had russian air defence and chinky radarnone of which was operated at the time the american devil wont dare attack at night!
>>536564624JY-27A/JYL-1 are Chinese early-warning/surveillance radars only, sensors for detection and tracking. They lack missiles, launchers or fire-control for engagement. Venezuela pairs them with Russian SAMs so saying that China supplied Venezuela with AA/AD systems is technically not true.
Yet another implessive slant-eyed propaganda, one would think you people at least check for consistency or even if this shit is believable.
>>536561443You can learn Mandarin after you have finished your state mandated Arabic language course
>>536559583>$99k>hypersonic missileIs the WEF still having that meeting at Davos every year?
>>536564395>Because Chinese ADs worked so well in Venezuela and Iran kekAmerica lost across the entire Middle East region. The one day that US entered Iranian airspace resulted in 14 airframes lost.>>536564422>i had to check, turns out the companyIf you'd looked anything up, you'd know the name of the company.>>536564567>There is/was no Chinese AD systems in Venezuela/Iran.Iran's infinite supply of Manpads is at least partly provided by China. Their advanced AD is available and probably present even though we never got to see it. Iran's AD doctrine for the conflict was to rely on manpads until western recon drones were depleted, since this would then make the advanced AD effectively invulnerable to American SEAD/DEAD doctrines.
>>536568061the company name is in OP you useless chink faggot
>>536559583Are you the XD guy? Fucking based
>>536559583Why do chinks keep making these vague threats against Japan? Are they still seething about Manchuria?
>>536559583Iran proved hypersonics can overcome layered defenses from THAAD to C-RAM. This large-scale, cheap production will ensure even more hits with saturation attacks while costing less than the millions of dollars associated with an inferior interceptor, even more so if the glide vehicle can loiter and actively evade defenses. Kudos to China and their capabilities. The memes of them not being able to produce ballpoint pens when they are the world-leading producers always astound me.
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