China has succeeded in creating powerful explosives and has become an important exporter of components for the manufacture of explosives. forbes.
Journalists of the publication note that the United States is trying to develop explosives that will be 40% stronger than standard samples.
However, with the collapse of the USSR, the need for such a project disappeared. American experts decided not to develop the CL-20 explosive and not invest in the development of weapons that could be used.
At the same time, China saw a perspective in this project. It is stated that in some missile types, one of the CL-20 variants, which the PRC first adopted in 2011 and is now producing on an industrial scale, is used as fuel.
“This is a situation that we can defeat with our own weapons,” said Bob Kavetsky, president of the nonprofit research organization Energy Technology Center.
He said the only solution to the problem was the creation of new energy materials that would allow Washington to make smaller missiles with the same lethal power.
On the eve of Bloomberg, referring to the Intelligence Agency of the US Department of Defense WroteThat China is ahead of Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons and may have developed weapons capable of hitting American bases in the Pacific.