Hypersonic systems have been used for decades, but its next-gen versions may pose a significant threat to global security. 🧐
against a Ukrainian arms depot in the western part of the country on March 18, 2022. That might sound scary, but the technology the Russians used was not particularly advanced. However, next-generation hypersonic missiles that Russia, China, and the U.S. are developing pose a significant threat to national and global security.who studies space and defense systems, including hypersonic systems. These new systems pose an important challenge due to their maneuverability all along their trajectory.
A second important challenge stems from the fact that they operate in a different region of the atmosphere from other existing threats. The new hypersonic weapons fly much higher than slower subsonic missiles but much lower than intercontinental ballistic missiles. The U.S. and its allies do not have good tracking coverage for this in-between region, nor does Russia or China.Russia has claimed that some of its hypersonic weapons can carry a nuclear warhead.
How hypersonic missiles threaten to upend the relative stability of the current era of nuclear weapons. In the case of the U.S., if the determination were made that the weapon was nuclear, then there is a very high likelihood that the U.S. would consider this a first-strike attack and respond by. The hypersonic speed of these weapons increases the precariousness of the situation because the time for any last-minute diplomatic resolution would be severely reduced.
It is the destabilizing influence that modern hypersonic missiles represent that is perhaps the greatest risk they pose. I believe the U.S. and its allies should rapidly field their own hypersonic weapons to bring other nations such as Russia and China to the negotiating table to develop a diplomatic approach to managing these weapons.
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