China's Global Times reported on November 16, 2014, that the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation had for the first time demonstrated a supersonic cruise missile called the Chaoxun-1 or CX-1. It said the missile bears a close resemblance to the Russian-Indian BrahMos missile. Wang Hongpo, the missile's designer, told the paper that the CX-1 has a range of 280 kilometers, can attain a speed of Mach 3 at 17,000 meters and is capable of sinking a large warship. The missile lowers its altitude to 10 meters when it arrives at a distance 10 kilometers away from its target, he said.