This is super important stuff for our country.
Most of if not all of this is needed to counter a potential conflict with China, which is only a matter of time away IMO.
We desperately need a capability that has legs to support our naval forces with distance enough that can allow our carriers to be placed in proximity to Taiwan where they can fight the Chinese and right now we don’t have that.
Also, not all hypersonic weapons are the same in that some are more like fast cruise missiles while others are near space operators with hypersonic glide vehicle. Both are good but hgv’s are best. China has hgv’s.
Disagreeing to make hgv and any hypersonic capable weapons because we have ample other weapons would be like not funding jet aircraft because our piston propeller driven aircraft are good enough today.
I hope we can get ours operational and on line asap, before China pushes their button.
So you are saying if the USN or USAF had hypersonics we could knock out all of Chinas hypersonics so our carriers would not be at risk?
Think that is the thinking of a neocon general.