US required to catch up with its opponents in this direction of technology, like hypersonic missiles. On the lag of the American Armed Forces, the Deputy Director for Hypersonic Developments in the Department of Research and Study Development Development of Pentagon, Michael White on the video conferencing of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Research, reports TASS.
“Potential opponents over the past decade decided to move to hypersonic systems, create a new potential. It is seriously compressed by the time frame of the confrontation. We used to afford not to move in this direction, now we have no such luxury. [Opponents] have a potential whom we have no, “the agency leads his words.
White stressed that opponents of the United States are a significant stock of ballistic missiles and a developing stock of hyper-sound missiles.
At the end of May it was reported that US naval forces conducted the first fire tests of a solid fuel engine intended for the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles and Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) capable of flying to Moscow.