Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Russia and China Gained a Strategic Advantage in Hypersonic Technology


Strategic Culture: How Russia and China Gained a Strategic Advantage in Hypersonic Technology

A hot topic in military prognostications regarding China, Russia and the United States revolves around the development and use of hypersonic technology for missiles or UAVs as an invulnerable means of attack. As we will see, not all three countries are dealing successfully with this task.

The United States, China and Russia have in recent years increased their efforts to equip their armed forces with such highly destructive missiles and vehicles seen in the previous article. Putin’s recent speech in Moscow reflects this course of direction by presenting a series of weapons with hypersonic characteristics, as seen with the Avangard and the Dagger.

As confirmed by US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Dr. Michael Griffin:

We, today, do not have systems that can hold them [hypersonic weapons] at risk...and we do not have defenses against those [hypersonic] systems. Should they choose to deploy them we would be, today, at a disadvantage.

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WNU Editor: I suspect that the U.S. is not really that behind the Chinese or Russians .... or even if they are behind. But raising these concerns is a very effective technique to get more money out of Congress.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, once China enters the second Korean war (just as it entered the first Korean war and left the world with what is now the North Korean problem), we'll find out fast enough.

manstien said...

The U.S. are not playing their hand on experimental military technology. Imho,the U.S. already has hypersonic vehicles AND what would be considered A.I.