Missile test from Russia-24. Russia-24
Defense News: Hypersonics ‘highest technical priority’ for Pentagon R&D head
WASHINGTON ― As China and Russia threaten to overtake the U.S. with new technologies, development of hypersonic capabilities is the “highest technical priority” for Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
“I’m sorry for everybody out there who champion some other high priority, some technical thing; it’s not that I disagree with those. But there has to be a first, and hypersonics is my first,” Griffin said at the McAleese/Credit Suisse conference Tuesday, in his first public comments since taking office 10 days ago.
The department will be looking to invest more in both offensive hypersonics capabilities and ways to defend against the threat, with new budget items likely to appear in the fiscal 2020 budget, Griffin said, adding that the goal is to leapfrog the work that China and Russia are doing in the hypersonic realm.
Read more ....
Update #1: Hypersonics 'Highest' Priority For DOD's New Tech Boss (Aviation Week)
Update #2: Inside the race for hypersonic weapons (The Verge)
WNU Editor: Chinese and Russian advances in this technology has clearly spooked the Pentagon.
1 comment:
No surprise: after 8 years (that's a lot in high tech) of sleeping America under Obama we have to wake up, and that's hard. But we can survive because the Russian and Chinese are terribly copycat of our development. Hard work now.
Post a Comment