Why are hypersonic weapons so important for America’s security?
By: Seth Cropsey   6 days ago
America’s enemies learned from the Gulf and Iraq wars that they could not allow the U.S. and its allies geographic access to a combat zone, and have therefore developed denial techniques.
It is here that hypersonic weapons become extremely important.
Denying an enemy access to a combat zone requires enough long-range missiles to hold U.S. forces out of their missiles’ effective range. Two methods exist to execute this task: build enough missiles and launch platforms (ships, aircraft, submarines or ground-based launchers) to overwhelm an air defense system, or build munitions that can evade air defense systems.
Hypersonic weapons aid the latter aspect of this approach.
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