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Russia and China spent years working on and developing missiles that could travel at hypersonic speeds, making them all but impossible to shoot down using existing missile defense systems, all [...]

Of 1600 miles you cannot close your carrier battle groups anywhere close to that without having a hypersonic missile hitting the carrier battle group or anything like that. and i put the onous on the military. we did not realize it was happening, the russians and the chinese until around 2019, so we started putting money into it in 2019. even as recently as march, general milley made the comment, man, like a sputnik moment. it shouldnt have been and we should have been putting a lot more effort ...

Everybody. chinese and the russians just plain got ahead of us. >> some in the pentagon described it as a sputnik moment. hypersonic weapons fly at speeds of at least mach 5 and can change course and evade billions of dollars of missile defense. in an exclusive interview, senator angus king of maine who chairs the senate armed services subcommittee on strategic forces said the u.s. is still behind. >> we are probably i think five years behind in terms of where the chinese are. they dont mind fai...

N Korea launches 'more advanced' missile after hypersonic test

It’s worth recalling just why the United States is now vigorously pursuing hypersonic weaponization with a sense of urgency. A clue: it isn’t because hypersonic zealots just “got their way.”

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the Chinese military is "expanding rapidly". The Financial Times reported this month that the test has stunned the US military.

And tested two hypersonic missiles leaving the u.s. intelligence agency stunned. china now shooting down reports claiming they merely carried out routine testing. fox news senior strategic analyst not buying it retired four star general jack keane, general, should would he be concerned about this hypersonic test? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. first of all china is denying that they actually did anything like this. they are trying to say well, what we were really testing was a reusable spacecraft. wel...

Top Senate Foreign Relations Republican sounds alarm after "China's test [...] of a Fractional Orbital Bombardment system," saying it would "allow the PRC to completely circumvent US early warning capabilities and increase the vulnerability of the continental US to a nuclear attack."