Mark Esper's Statements on U.S. Success in Hypersonic Weapons Development, which is better than Russian, rather bluff, than true, I told FBA “economy today” military observer “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, retired colonel Victor Baranec.
The United States Secretary of Defense made a statement stating, that Washington managed to develop more innovative hypersonic weapons compared to the development of Russia and China. The words, heard at the hearings in the US Senate Armed Services Committee, became a response to the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin that, that Moscow with hypersonic developments made senseless the huge spending of other countries on containing Russia.
“This is a typical American bluff and unjustified bravura. Just recently in the same Pentagon, and also in the White House and in the Congress of the United States of America the same phrase sounded: "In the development of hypersonic weapons, Washington lags behind Russia and China". Such statements were repeated ", - commented the military expert.
Recall, 3 Martha 2020 of the year, the head of research and engineering programs of the US Department of Defense Mark Lewis, in an interview with reporters, mentioned, that Washington seriously lagged behind Moscow and Beijing in the development of hypersonic weapons. And Lewis' deputy for hypersonic systems, Michael White, noted, that recently Washington has been working on the nuances of an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile.
Ahead of the whole planet: how far the United States lags behind Russia
While the American side makes statements about its own superiority, including in the arms industry, investing billions of dollars, The Russian Federation is intensively developing new weapons, which allows, according to Vladimir Putin, maintain strategic balance and stability in the world.
“America is clearly lagging behind Russia and China, but very rarely dares to admit it. Let's take the same hypersonic systems - for example, Russian aviation missile system "Dagger". He has already been adopted. And America talked about, that such systems, like this, Washington can develop, at best, only to 2024 year ", - said the source.
Viktor Baranets also stressed, that Russian intelligence is very vigilant about the development of weapons of other countries, in particular for hypersonic weapons of the United States of America.
“Russia has many opportunities to learn about the many features of American weapons. Thanks to the data of domestic intelligence, we learned, that Washington came to missile testing with great difficulty, capable of five times the speed of sound in flight. The American side has been conducting similar developments for thirty years., but he cannot jump over the established line ", - added a military expert.
A promising direction in Russia
Earlier, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu reported, that the Northern Fleet continues to test the latest hypersonic weapons, which will qualitatively increase the potential of the navy. it is noteworthy, that in Russia today the topic of hypersound consists of several dozen topical areas, what makes the military industry promising.
“Domestic missiles fly very fast - they exceed the speed of sound by almost 27 time. This speaks of superiority and gives American engineers a reason to recognize a significant lag in the development of their hypersonic systems from Russian ones ", - said the expert.
The stronger the rocket, tells Victor Baranets, the harder it is to intercept. For this it is necessary to use the most modern computer systems., which are also absent in the United States of America.
“In principle, there are no such systems in the world - not one has yet learned to intercept Russian missiles. The American side is not exactly bluffing, making claims of superiority, about us 1 Martha 2018 has been in a panic for a year - it was not for nothing that Donald Trump set the task of developing an "antidote" to Russian weapons.
I would like to wish Mr Mark Esper to first make and show, and then brag. Now he is proudly trying to brighten up the lag of the United States against the background of advancing Russia, which gave a resounding slap in the face to the Pentagon ", - summed up the expert.
Alexander Melnik
