The American military-industrial company Raytheon will develop hypersonic weapon for the US Department of Defense.
This is with reference to the statements of the official representatives of the company's press-service informs journalists TNI.
As specified in the message, amount of the contract within the framework of the development of hypersonic weapons program was 63,3 million dollars.
New developments will allow the armed forces to act on much more long distances, as well as more quickly and effectively respond to threats, compared with existing systems, - the report says.
Recall, In February this year, the press service of the Pentagon announced the possibility of creating a system perspective, designed to intercept a hypersonic weapon. Then, the Missile Defense Agency conducted an analysis of the available for the US Army of possible alternatives for the protection of hypersonic. According to Lieutenant General Sam Greaves, The Pentagon has come to believe, that the creation of a new kind of weapons appropriate to modify existing systems.
Previously, our site has reported that, France has begun to develop a hypersonic weapons and plans to conduct its first test run at the end of 2020 of the year. project, dubbed the V-MAX, engaged ArianeGroup consortium, which includes the company Safran and Airbus. In the framework of the French Ministry of Defense is planning to create strategic nuclear weapons.
According to Western journalists, the creation of this kind of weapons for France to join the "club hypersonic".
