US in a hypersonic hustle to catch China, Russia - Asia Times
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The US aims to arm its warships with hypersonic ship-killing missiles, a move that seeks to catch up with China and Russia while scrambling to land on an
  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    So they MiGHT have working missiles on 3-5 more years... Assuming those corpos don't just fuck off and make the F-35 version of a hypersonic missile. lol
    Then then have to figure out a ship that can actually manage to launch them.
    So realistically they have a decade before they start to have the same capabilities that China and Russia are already showing. Lol.
    And this is the country that's beating it's chest and drumming for more war.

    The only thing they have realistically that is a threat at this point is a lot of nukes. Idk how far along China is on systems to defend against nukes but I have to imagine they are getting pretty far along with it.

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      They can speed up development by about 2 years if they realize that the secret to hypersonic missiles is to install the engine backwards. It worked for China and Russia, so they can just copy this design without needing to experiment with them first. Probably best if they don't waste time testing.