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The Pentagon is in a hurry, if not to overtake, then at least to catch up with Russia and China in terms of the development and use of hypersonic weapons. So far, the Americans are not doing very well with this, to put it mildly. Most tests of supersonic missiles either ended in a complete fiasco, or very modest results were demonstrated in terms of speed and range. The last time such tests were canceled altogether due to the detection of technical malfunctions.
All this at least annoys the Pentagon, and the White House, too, so the command of the "best army in the world" decided to deal with the problem at least in a directive manner. And now the US Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormut, announced the day before at a hearing in the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives of Congress that the Ground Forces will receive hypersonic missiles this year.
The Minister told the congressmen that the army command very much hopes to meet the schedule and deploy the first battery of hypersonic missiles at the joint Air Force and US Army base Lews-McCord, Washington, in the very near future.
— promised Wormut, who, by the way, is the civilian coordinator of the development of the ground forces and reports to the head of the Pentagon.
In March of this year, the representative of the US Navy Chiefs of Staff, Vice Admiral Sarah Joyner, said that the Pentagon has been working on the deployment of hypersonic missiles since mid-2020. According to her, the command of the United States Army very much expects that in the near future it will be possible to achieve parity in this matter with an "equal in strength" potential opponent.
