Study Says Hypersonic Missiles Slower and More Easily Detected Than Current Weapons Systems
U.S. Won’t Get Return on Multi-Billion Dollar Investment in Hypersonics and May End Up Less Secure Published Jan 16, 2021 WASHINGTON (Jan. 16, 2021)—A scientific study published today finds that hypersonic missiles will not offer the United States significant new military capabilities because they are slower and more susceptible to detection than the country’s existing ballistic missile systems. The peer-reviewed study published in Science & Global Security, an international journal based at Princeton University, analyzes the operational capability of hypersonic missiles curr...
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