US NORAD chief claims China is 10 times ahead in developing hypersonic weapons

[beijingwalker]

US NORAD chief claims China is 10 times ahead in developing hypersonic weapons​

PARIS BEACON
MARCH 2, 2022

The head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Glen VanHerck, warned Tuesday before the US House Armed Services Committee that China is 10 times ahead in developing hypersonic weapons.

“[Los chinos] are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capability ten times as much as we have, in terms of testing in the last year or so, significantly outpacing us with their capabilities,” VanHerck said. “I’m confident when the budget is released, we’ll see additional resources to the hypersonic area as well as threat alerting and attack assessment for those capabilities,” he said.

For his part, the head of the US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), Charles Richard, stressed that the nuclear forces that the country has at its disposal now represent “the minimum necessary” to achieve the goals of the national strategy. In this sense, Richard urged to modernize the nuclear triad, the command and control of the respective forces.

VanHerck and Richard’s statements come in the middle of the discussion regarding the military budget for fiscal year 2023. Thus, the magazine Politico reported at the end of last January, citing anonymous sources, that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin criticized the fiscal proposals that, according to him, did not adequately accelerate the advance of the United States in terms of hypersonic weapons. In addition, the head of the Pentagon would have met with general directors of defense companies to seek a solution to the problem and to be able to follow the progress of China and Russia.

Meanwhile, the US Department of Defense requested 3.8 billion dollars for the development of hypersonic programs, although these funds still have to be approved by Congress, details Air Force Magazine.

In 2021, the US Air Force failed three times during tests of the AGM-183A hypersonic missile booster, with the last failure in December last year.

US NORAD chief claims China is 10 times ahead in developing hypersonic weapons - Paris Beacon-News

The head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Glen VanHerck, warned Tuesday before the US House Armed Services Committee that China is 10 times ahead in developing hypersonic weapons. “[Los chinos] are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capability ten times as much as we have...

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[hualushui]

Soon, we will see an American take the hypersonic missile development plan as a press release

 

[gambit]

Soon, we will see an American take the hypersonic missile development plan as a press release

What? The US is TESTING two boost glide vehicles, and...

U.S. successfully flight tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon -Pentagon

The United States has tested an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, marking the first successful test of the class of weapon since 2013, the Pentagon said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

The free flight test of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) occurred last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, said in a statement.​

The scramjet version is a more tactically flexible weapon. It can be carried by fighter or bomber.

 

[vi-va]

What? The US is TESTING two boost glide vehicles, and...

U.S. successfully flight tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon -Pentagon

The United States has tested an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, marking the first successful test of the class of weapon since 2013, the Pentagon said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

The free flight test of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) occurred last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, said in a statement.​

The scramjet version is a more tactically flexible weapon. It can be carried by fighter or bomber.

Don't think scramjet version will be matured and deployed in the near future. DOD didn't reveal anything important, such as range, height, how many seconds the scramjet engine lasted.

Please let me know if you have the statistic.

I agree, scramjet version will be truly revolutionary if it's indeed mature and deployed, which will be a nightmare to current air defense system, and sweep S-300, S-400, SM-6 ERAM into trash can.

 

[gambit]

Don't think scramjet version will be matured and deployed in the near future. DOD didn't reveal anything important, such as range, height, how many seconds the scramjet engine lasted.

Please let me know if you have the statistic.

I agree, scramjet version will be truly revolutionary if it's indeed mature and deployed, which will be a nightmare to current air defense system, and sweep S-300, S-400, SM-6 ERAM into trash can.

Have you ever worked anything in R/D? Am going to go out on a limb and speculate: No.

The main thing about weapons development is that rarely is any program came to be on its own, in other words, you do not create a new weapon unless or until you find something about your opponent that you cannot reach with your current platforms. And so far, there is nothing in China or Russia, or any place on the planet for that matter, that we cannot reach with our current platforms, whether it is by the B-2, the USS Nimitz, or the Minuteman.

Now, by 'reach', it can also mean that a defensive method was created that could render our attack methods less probable or even ineffective. In that case, we definitely need to develop a new weapon platform immediately. Other considerations can also push a development program to the fore, such as WW II where the need for defeat Germany and JPN was great enough that Project Manhattan was created to accelerate the A-bombs. But for the foreseeable future at today, no one have a defensive method that we cannot defeat. Maybe we are overconfident. Maybe we are not. And no one want to take a chance against US.

So just because we are a few yrs behind in development and deployment does not mean we are behind in technology. Our current weapons platforms are formidable enough to give US time to work on the hypersonic program at our pace.

 

[BON PLAN]

The US failure are publicly released. It's never the case of Chinese ones.
So China may not have such an advance.

 

[Oldman1]

Have you ever worked anything in R/D? Am going to go out on a limb and speculate: No.

The main thing about weapons development is that rarely is any program came to be on its own, in other words, you do not create a new weapon unless or until you find something about your opponent that you cannot reach with your current platforms. And so far, there is nothing in China or Russia, or any place on the planet for that matter, that we cannot reach with our current platforms, whether it is by the B-2, the USS Nimitz, or the Minuteman.

Now, by 'reach', it can also mean that a defensive method was created that could render our attack methods less probable or even ineffective. In that case, we definitely need to develop a new weapon platform immediately. Other considerations can also push a development program to the fore, such as WW II where the need for defeat Germany and JPN was great enough that Project Manhattan was created to accelerate the A-bombs. But for the foreseeable future at today, no one have a defensive method that we cannot defeat. Maybe we are overconfident. Maybe we are not. And no one want to take a chance against US.

So just because we are a few yrs behind in development and deployment does not mean we are behind in technology. Our current weapons platforms are formidable enough to give US time to work on the hypersonic program at our pace.

And its not like we are giving up and allowing China have the monopoly in such weaponry.

 

[vi-va]

Have you ever worked anything in R/D? Am going to go out on a limb and speculate: No.

The main thing about weapons development is that rarely is any program came to be on its own, in other words, you do not create a new weapon unless or until you find something about your opponent that you cannot reach with your current platforms. And so far, there is nothing in China or Russia, or any place on the planet for that matter, that we cannot reach with our current platforms, whether it is by the B-2, the USS Nimitz, or the Minuteman.

Now, by 'reach', it can also mean that a defensive method was created that could render our attack methods less probable or even ineffective. In that case, we definitely need to develop a new weapon platform immediately. Other considerations can also push a development program to the fore, such as WW II where the need for defeat Germany and JPN was great enough that Project Manhattan was created to accelerate the A-bombs. But for the foreseeable future at today, no one have a defensive method that we cannot defeat. Maybe we are overconfident. Maybe we are not. And no one want to take a chance against US.

So just because we are a few yrs behind in development and deployment does not mean we are behind in technology. Our current weapons platforms are formidable enough to give US time to work on the hypersonic program at our pace.

I am glad even Vietnamese in US is as confident as before.

I thought Covid at least taught US a lesson or two. It seems that I overestimated you and some other members here.

US is as formidable as before, those Iraq war, Afghanistan War, Vietnam War loss is nothing.

Chinese are too realist, I hope Chinese can be as optimistic as you. Lack of history is a good thing sometimes. You guys can forget the pain really quickly.

Bravo!