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Pentagon Seeks Weapons to Counter Hypersonic Missiles
« on: August 16, 2016, 12:48:16 pm »
 Pentagon Seeks Weapons to Counter Hypersonic Missiles
Posted By Bill Gertz On August 16, 2016 @ 5:00 am In National Security | No Comments

Foreign states are developing high-speed, maneuvering missiles, and the Pentagon and U.S. Pacific Command want weapons to counter them, a leading defense contractor involved in missile defense said Monday.

Doug Graham, vice president of missile systems and advanced programs for Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor, told reporters in a briefing that missiles pose “an accelerating threat, both in numbers and complexity.”

“We’re also seeing advanced threats … hypersonic, maneuvering threats, that are being characterized as directly challenging the capabilities” of the current U.S. ballistic missile defense system, Graham said in a teleconference from Huntsville, Ala.
 

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