This conceptual illustration reveals what hypersonic vehicles might look like in flight. Raytheon Technologies
Bloomberg: US lags China on hypersonic weapons by years, says US defence company CEO
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - The United States government is years behind China in the pursuit of so-called hypersonic weapons that bob and weave through the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound, Raytheon Technologies' chief executive said on Tuesday (Oct 26).
While the Pentagon has a number of hypersonic weapons programmes in development and the US understands the technology, China has "actually fielded hypersonic weapons", Raytheon CEO Gregory Hayes said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's Balance of Power With David Westin.
"We are at least several years behind," he said.
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