China is developing aircraft capable of reaching US shores with nuclear warheads in just 14 minutes, reports suggest.

The craft will be capable of hypersonic flight speeds of up to 27,000 miles per hour (43,200 kmh) — 35 times the speed of sound.

They will be tested in China’s newest military-grade wind tunnel, set to be the world’s fastest hypersonic facility when construction is complete ‘by 2020’, experts claim.

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