Air Force General Anthony Cotton, head of the US Strategic Command (Stratcom), said the US will deploy its first long-range hypersonic missile battery by the end of 2023. It has been reported DEA News.
According to him, by the end of 2023, the US Army plans to deploy a number of long-range hypersonic weapons, and a conventional naval strike program will begin in the mid-2020s.
Cotton stressed that the development and deployment of hypersonic missiles is a priority for the command.
Formerly Cotton declarationthat the existence of hypersonic weapons can be considered as one of the aspects of nuclear deterrence.
Prior to this, the US Department of Defense announced a successful test launch of a hypersonic missile.
According to the Pentagon, during the tests, the aircraft flew at a speed of more than 6125 km / h at an altitude of more than 18 km for a distance of 555 km.
As the Pentagon explained, this launch was the final test flight of the US Air Force’s (Air Force) hypersonic air-jet weapon project in conjunction with the Pentagon Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Source: Gazeta
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