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Billions Spent on Hypersonic Development is Driving a Costly Arms Race Published May 5, 2021 A new technical analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that hypersonic weapons offer few meaningful advantages over existing missiles in terms of speed, maneuverability, accuracy, stealth, or the evasion of missile defenses. It recommends that the United States slow its development and acquisition of these weapons to better align funding with their limited tactical and strategic utility. “Hypersonic weapons are widely promoted as revolutionary missile technologies. That misperception is driving a new and expensive arms race between the United States, Russia, and China that poses a global security risk,” said Dr. Cameron Tracy, a Kendall Fellow for the UCS Global Security Program and author of the report. “Unfortunately, the overhyped claims regarding the performance of these weapons are rarely backed up with data.”

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