Saturday, March 16, 2019

White House Moves To Secure Funding for Developing Hypersonic Weapons

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RT: Pentagon plans to spend $2.6 billion on developing hypersonic weaponry

The US defense budget proposal for FY 2020 boasts a record-breaking research and development request, as the Pentagon seeks to get its hands on all the shiny new things, such as artificial intelligence and hypersonic weaponry.

The US Department of Defense has rolled out the proposal for its budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The Pentagon needs even more funds compared to the massive $716 billion budget in 2019 and now wants it to grow by some five percent – to a whopping $750 billion.

A significant part of the funding is needed to run multiple research and development programs, as the US military is keen to get new weapons and technologies – such as hypersonic missiles, already successfully tested by Russia and China.

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WNU Editor: It appears the U.S. is playing catch-up .... Panel: China Leading the World in Hypersonic Weapon Development (USNI News).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let's make this easy.

Lets just make a world bomb. It doesn't have to go fast. You do not have to make it road or rail mobile. You do not have to hide it on a submersible.

Just one boom like "Planet of the Apes"


After all so many people are acting like apes with the harems, so it would fit.


Stephen Davenport said...

I have seen articles and tests on these type of vehicles for years and I take whatever the Russians and Chinese say about their tech worth a grain of salt. The first have no money and the latter steals our tech, so if we don't have it, neither do the Chinese.