How Did Russia Win The Hypersomic Missile Race Against The U.S.?

Washington Examiner: How Russia got hypersonic missiles before the US

Department of Defense officials sought to answer this week the question of how the United States fell behind in hypersonic weapon development and what it is now doing to catch up with Russia and China.

"That’s one we get a lot, really,” Mike White, assistant director for hypersonics at the Pentagon, said at a Monday press briefing, responding to a question from the Washington Examiner as to how Russia already has tested weapons and the U.S. is still in the experimental phase of hypersonic missile development.

“In past decades, we've been world leaders in hypersonics technology, but we have consistently made the decision to not transition that to weapon applications and build weapons systems out of hypersonic technologies that we were working on in the laboratory,” he said.

But the Russians and Chinese have.

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WNU Editor: It looks like the Pentagon and the politicians who oversee them were asleep at the wheel.

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