The USA were world leaders in the field of hypersonic weapons, but the development failed and now will take years to recover the position, said Deputy head of the joint Committee of chiefs of staff U.S. army General John Khayten.
He recognized that now after stopping the development "will take years to rebuild" and tried to convince to speed up the process, which, according to his statement, until done.
over the past period of time, the States are actively working on the creation of hypersonic missiles. So, in 2018 the us military has begun work on the ARRW missile of class " air - ground ". In parallel, the US created a hypersonic missile HCSW range for the air force. In total the development ARRW and HCSW will cost the us budget about half a billion dollars.
last week the head of the United States Donald trump confirmed the fact that the development of hypersonic weapons.
The only country in the world, officially reported that it has hypersonic weapons - Russia. Last year, leader Vladimir Putin told about the launch of a series of rocket complex of strategic purpose with planning combat unit "vanguard" and on the successful testing of a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles " Zircon ".
in October 2019 Putin said that by the time the leading armies of the world of hypersonic weapons in the Russian Federation will have a new weapon, scientists are working on it.
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