US Army Secretary Kristin Wormuth said at a House Armed Services (AC) Committee hearing that the US Army plans to deploy hypersonic missiles in 2023, despite the recent cancellation of testing such weapons. It has been reported TASS.
New dates are scheduled for the test, which should be canceled, according to Warmuth. The minister emphasized that the battery from the Lewis-McChord joint base of the Army and the US Air Force, which will deploy the relevant system, has already been trained with its equipment.
“I think we’ll still be on schedule,” Warmouth added.
At the end of March, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declarationThat the United States conducted 12 successful hypersonic weapons tests in 2022.
March 28 US Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall aforementioned at a congressional hearing where the country’s latest hypersonic weapons tests failed.
On March 25, Representative Doug Lambourne during an event at the CSIS Research Center in Washington declarationthat the country should focus on the development of hypersonic weapons, which China lags far behind.