“Making things move fast has been around a long time. Making them manuverable and precise is a another ball game.”
Yep, and that’s why trying to sit on one’s lead for 30 YEARS (1985 to 2015) isn’t exactly very bright.
INF was Reagan’s fault. But the lessons in terminal guidance learned from SDI (Regan’s fault in a good way) are surely paying dividends for our Hypersonics programs. Which is harder: hitting an incoming enemy missile or floating cruiser?