US Is 'Losing' Hypersonic Weapons Race

A news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Jan. 11. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

By    |   Tuesday, 11 January 2022 07:19 AM EST ET

Just as nuclear weapons were the measure of world power in the 20th century, hypersonic armaments appear to be the defining deadly tech of the current time — but unlike in the atomic age, the U.S. is struggling to keep up with its adversaries.

One analyst bluntly describes the American effort so far as a “losing” one.

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Just as nuclear weapons were the measure of world power in the 20th century, hypersonic armaments appear to be the defining deadly tech of the current time - but unlike in the atomic age, the U.S. is struggling to keep up with its adversaries in the hypersonic arena, with...
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