Russia isn't "two generations" ahead of us in any technology, be it "civilian" or "military based." If it's public knowledge that hypersonci missiles exist, it's because the U.S. has had them for at least 20 yrs already, and has perfected said system for at least half that time.
This subject is low hanging fruit for the neocon-esque in DC to harp about as a reason why "muh 'Merica is weak."
Also, we were working on hypersonic missiles at Pax River, MD test facility and China Lake test facility in the late 90's to early 00's. I was a Naval Aviation Ordnanceman back then, before I went to EOD and remember seeing the messages coming from both facilities about the progress of that weapons system. We were also already flying tests on some laser weapons during that time. Some of those messages came with videos we were told to watch of upcoming technologies to be prepared to train on.
I can assure you, once messages start coming out about training and development of forces, along with test videos (which means it's been declassed out of TS-SCII), the military has had working systems for 10-15 yrs. By the time the Gen public learns of them, those systems are already being produced at a manufacturing plant, or soon will be.
Russia isn't "two generations" ahead of us in any technology, be it "civilian" or "military based." If it's public knowledge that hypersonci missiles exist, it's because the U.S. has had them for at least 20 yrs already, and has perfected said system for at least half that time.
This subject is low hanging fruit for the neocon-esque in DC to harp about as a reason why "muh 'Merica is weak."
Also, we were working on hypersonic missiles at Pax River, MD test facility and China Lake test facility in the late 90's to early 00's. I was a Naval Aviation Ordnanceman back then, before I went to EOD and remember seeing the messages coming from both facilities about the progress of that weapons system. We were also already flying tests on some laser weapons during that time. Some of those messages came with videos we were told to watch of upcoming technologies to be prepared to train on.
I can assure you, once messages start coming out about training and development of forces, along with test videos (which means it's been declassed out of TS-SCII), the military has had working systems for 10-15 yrs. By the time the Gen public learns of them, those systems are already being produced at a manufacturing plant, or soon will be.
...compelling addendum, nicely stated and framed...
Russia is way ahead in Scalar Electromagnetic weapons, they have been developing them since the 1940's.
http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm