Hypersonic drone in 2019
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/why-china-s-new-wz-8-hypersonic-surveillance-drone-is-very-bad-news-for-the-u-s-navy
More on the WZ-8 in 2021
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-worlds-only-hypersonic-aircraft
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Multiple sources have indicated that the WZ-8 can loiter and flies at maximum speeds of between Mach 6 and Mach 7, and with current Western long range air to air missiles such as the AIM-120 and Meteor flying well below Mach 5 they would need to be over twice as fast to pose a serious threat.
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AVIC WZ-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIC_WZ-8
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The drone was reportedly deployed at Anqing Airbase in 2021.[7] In 2023, US intelligence reported the drone and its H-6 mothership are currently operated by the Eastern Theater Command Air Force out of Liu'an Airbase in Anhui province.
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Would be quite the leap to make an unmanned rocket powered drone requiring a mother ship into a commercial passenger platform, but the speeds have been done which is my point.
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