“Also in Russian news today: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/video-russia-launches-hypersonic-missile-claiming-mach-7-speed/“
Fake news. We spend 5 times as much on our military and we cannot even do that. Don’t be fooled by the neocons, we have NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT regarding Russia and China.
...yep, nothing to worry about, nothing at all.
Um, you do know that they already have hypersonic missiles on the world arms market, just not ones this fast, right?
The Russians partnered up with the Indians to make the BrahMos I missiles. They go Mach 3 and are the fastest cruise missiles in service anywhere, verified by Western observers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos
They are both working on a successor missile, the BrahMos2 - top speed is to be Mach 8. This will also likely be confirmed by Western observers when it is deployed later this decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos-II
They already have had Mach 7 test articles fly, again with Western verification.
We spend 5 times as much on our military, but we may be spending most of it on waste and LGBTQ programs and ‘tolerance and diversity’. We recently cancelled and removed the anti-torpedo torpedo launchers from our carriers because they turned out not to work. We don’t have countermeasures for supercavitating torpedoes, and our defense industry can’t even make one for us. Those have been on the world arms market for decades and they are absolutely what they say on the tin per independent evaluations. The list goes on and on.
Just because we spend more money doesn’t mean we’re spending it on the right things.