Pentagon reluctantly comments on hypersonic weapons after Trump brags about new ‘super duper missile’
US president claims rocket 17 times faster than anything in military’s arsenal
Tom Embury-Dennis
The Pentagon has reluctantly commented about its development of hypersonic weapons after Donald Trump bragged about the existence of a new “super duper missileâ€.
Mr Trump’s comments came during a Friday presentation at the White House in which Defense Department officials presented the US president with the Space Force flag.
“We’re building right now, incredible military equipment, at a level that nobody’s ever seen before, we have no choice we have to do it, with the adversaries we have out there,†Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hypersonic-weapons-missiles-space-force-pentagon-white-house-military-a9518006.html
