[TexasGator]

“At the height of their speed, however, they can fly up to 20 times the speed of sound (Mach 20), or roughly 15,000 miles per hour.”

At 1000 miles there is no medium for sound to travel, Mach number is meaningless.

[MrLucky1966]

I know we were working on them first and then had them in the 1940’s and the 1950’s, the Snark, Navaho and the Hound Dog missiles come to mind. We also had slower ones like the Matador and the Mace. IIRC, in the late 1950’s, they were considered dead end, President Eisenhower declared hypersonic missiles obsolete when we developed the Atlas and Titan 1A ICBM’s along with the Polaris SLBM’s and various IRBM’s. I don’t know if this is a red herring to sucker us to pay more money into something to weaken us or not. Well, even so, it would be nice to have a little insurance, we need to set up Hawk and Patriot missile batteries and bring back the Nike Sites and the BOMARC.

[Savage Rider]

We’ll see China’s Hypersonic Missiles and raise them Space Lasers. We were all going to reach Armageddon via Nukes in the 1960s, so I figure I’ve had a bonus 60 years or so.

[Capt. Tom]

I looks like the Chinese have developed a weapons system no one including themselves can defend against.

So will they wait for us to catch up, or will they ......?- Tom

[Bonemaker]

"Explainer: What Are Hypersonic Weapons and Why Do They Matter?"

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I think I will be glad if we are not working on this weapons technology, as all of the work would already be being transferred to China. That seems to be the way our government operates.

Heck, we’ve been paying China to develop bio weapons that they now attack us with. What a country!

[DesertRhino]

“None is more important, however, than the fact that the United States, its allies, and its enemies have no credible defense against most HGV”

But the fact remains, that one Ohio Class boomer all by itself can utterly and completely wipe any nation off the face of the earth. And we have 10 of those, and another 4 that carry up to 154 cruise missiles which can also be nuked up.

Fire one hypersonic at America and it’ll get through. But unless you manage to take out all the boomers too, you just signed your national death warrant.

[T.B. Yoits]

...and to think of the Democrats and the Propaganda Media who mocked President Trump for creating the Space Force.

[PIF]

The CCP cannot make crystalline turbine blades for jet engines, yet some how, they have the metallurgical knowledge to make hypersonic missiles that work?

[Drew68]

The only nations known to have working HGVs are China and Russia...

But we have tranny four star admirals so there!

[USAF1985]

Here’s a blast from the past for everybody…courtesy of the Clinton administration:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/055003013