Arms companies of the United States and Great Britain are working on creating defenses against hypersonic missiles, which are called the weapons of the future and are actively being tested by Russia and China.
The Telegraph writes about it.
The head of the British Cohort, Andy Tomis, said that his company is working on a project to destroy weapons that can move five times faster than the speed of sound. He called work on the project a real challenge.
The director of the American Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Wes Kremer, says that his company is still at the initial stage of developing anti-missile weapons. Currently, specialists are studying the types of high-speed missiles.
- In May of this year, the US Air Force successfully tested the AGM-183A hypersonic missile from Lockheed Martin. During the tests, the rocket reached a speed five times higher than the speed of sound (more than 6,000 km/h).
- Prior to that, the US built a radar in Alaska to track hypersonic missiles and satellites.
- In January 2022, the DPRK announced the successful test of a hypersonic missile.
- Russia announced successful tests of such weapons in December 2021. At the same time, the Russian Federation announced that it had put the S-550 missile system on combat duty.