The Chinese military is apparently using an abandoned NASA design to develop a 6,000-mph hypersonic nuclear missile engine.

A prototype of the engine has been built and tested using a “radical” American design first proposed over 20 years ago as the country competes to outperform the West in a contemporary arms race, according to a report.

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