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Weapons and research. russia used hypersonic missiles in combat, firing the kinzal missiles to devastating effect in ukraine. and last summer, china tested a hyper hypersonic missile that went around the world. director of the navy's strategic systems programs knows the u.s. is behind moscow and beijing. >> yes, they deployed weapons that we haven't. up until just recently, there hasn't been a real driver for us to take that technology and put it into a weapons system that we can deliver to our war fighter. the need was not there. the need is now there which is why we've got a sense of urgency...

Hypersonic missiles travel at least five times the speed of sound, yet their ability to glide through the atmosphere while changing direction at such a fast rate makes them nearly hard to track and kill with current radars.

Terms of hypersonic programs. is that a problem, general? >> it absolutely is. the united states is used to having an advantage over our adversaries for decades. this has begun to change not just with this system but with some others. the chinese and russians have technology that we don't have in terms of its deployability yet. the army will deploy, will produce a system in 24. the navy in 25 on surface ships. and also on submarines in 27. but that will still leave us with a major problem, dana. we don't have any way to defend against this system. and what we're involved in developing as quick...