A senior official of the US Department of Defense said that the military is accelerating the development of hypersonic weapons speed and preparing for the deployment of hypersonic weapons around 2025.

According to Voice of the United States, the Ministry of Defense, Heidi Shu, is responsible for research and engineering affairs, and was asked at a discussion on Tuesday (October 18) that facing China and RussiaThey are accelerating the research and development and deployment of hypersonic weapons. Does the U.S. military have a sense of urgency and what actions are they taking?

She replied, "Every military in the United States is now developing hypersonic weapons, and each military is training to deploy this system in the mid -2020s. They are accelerating the pace to enter the initial operation period as soon as possible.Therefore, I think that the sense of urgency is definitely there. "

Xu Ruobing is the highest -level Asian American humanities official in the Pentagon.She was born in Taipei in 1953 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10.She was born in an engineer for a long time to serve as a military company such as Lei Shen Company, leading technology research and development and other businesses. During the Obama administration, she served as assistant ministers in charge of procurement, logistics and technical affairs.

China is actively and rapidly developing hypersonic missiles.Last summer, a hypersonic missile with a nuclear warhead with a nuclear warhead was launched in the near -ground track before attacking its scheduled target, and then returned to the atmosphere to fly to the scheduled target.

After the US Chief of Staff Joint Meeting Chairman Mark Milley, General Mark Milley described the incident as a 'Spritnick Moment', suggestingStrong, catch up.

The Draft of the US Department of Defense in 2023 has contained a special fund for R & D hypersonic weapons of US $ 4.7 billion (S $ 6.682 billion).The U.S. military is expected to successfully develop batteries with high supersonic weapons next year. In 2025, the sea -based hypersonic weapon is developed, and air -fired hypersonic cruise missiles were developed in 2027.