Hypersonic Weapons Could Transform Warfare. The U.S. Is Behind.

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Hypersonic Weapons Could Transform Warfare. The U.S. Is Behind.
Dave Deptula


Machine guns. Fighter jets. Nuclear weapons. When a new facet of military technology gains operational capability, sometimes it changes the rules of the game. Hypersonic weapons—that travel over five times the speed of sound—are difficult to detect and harder to intercept, offer that potential.

The impending promise of hypersonic weapons is so great that Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Dr. Michael Griffin recently explained: “I’m sorry for everybody out there who champions some other high priority, some technical thing; it’s not that I disagree with those. But there has to be a first [priority], and hypersonics is my first.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davedeptula/2018/10/05/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet/#ab579c45ca63