Lieutenant General Thompson: The United States is not as advanced in hypersonic technologies as the Russian Federation and China David Thompson expressed concern that the United States is inferior to Russia in hypersonic technology. This is reported by the Politico newspaper.
“We are not as advanced in hypersonic programs as China or the Russian Federation,” he said at a forum on international security in Canada. Thompson added that the US is “very quickly catching up” to match Beijing's capabilities in this area.
According to the general, Washington is working to “determine the type of satellite constellation” the US needs to track hypersonic missiles … “This is a new challenge, but the point is not that we do not have an answer to this challenge. We just need to understand this, fully design and launch, “he said.
In late October, the US Army and Navy conducted a second firing test of the first stage of a solid-propellant hypersonic missile engine. The press service of the US Navy clarified that this engine is designed to power a launch vehicle, which can carry hypersonic weapons.