Tag: Hypersonic Missiles
US Admiral Discloses America’s Sole Means of Defence Against Hypersonic Missiles
Russia and China deployed their first hypersonic capabilities in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Research into the new class of armaments was resumed in the early 2000s, after Washington scrapped the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which put severe limits on the creation of a shield meant to destroy traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles. …