Lockheed's hypersonic missile concept. Lockheed Martin
Martin Matishak, Fiscal Times: The Next Arms Race for the US, China and Russia: Hypersonic Weapons
The U.S. Defense Department should invest heavily in an emerging class of high-speed platforms that could help the military overcome a variety of potential enemy defenses by hitting targets at several times the speed of sound, according to a new think tank report.
Hypersonic weapons are like missiles, but they’re capable of reaching speeds of 3,600 miles per hour or more. They promise to “revolutionize military affairs in the same fashion that stealth did a generation ago and the turbojet engine did a generation before,” argues a study released Tuesday by the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
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WNU Editor: They still have to sort out the technical bugs .... but everyone acknowledges how important this weapons platform will be when they are solved.
WNU Editor,
ReplyDeleteWhat are your thoughts on these weapons replacing nuclear weapons in the future?
Mark. I can see nuclear weapons being on these weapon systems in the future.
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