Exclusive: Britain pours billions into race to develop world's fastest missile
Ministry of Defence commits £6.6bn to development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons 17 March 2021 • 10:00pm Boris Johnson has committed £6.6 billion for novel military research The development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons is to be given a boost from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with extra money, the Government has announced. The MoD will invest a significant amount of the extra money it won from the Treasury last year in “higher-risk research”. Adversaries such as Russia have invested in new air weapons progra...