MOSCOW (TASS): A hypersonic missile tested on Monday in the United States, which is five times the speed of sound, is not a breakthrough weapon. This opinion was expressed by military experts interviewed by TASS.
Ivan Konovalov, Development Director of the Foundation for Assistance to Technologies of the XXI Century, said in an interview with TASS that the test results of the latest American hypersonic missile cannot be considered completely reliable. “These tests are not credible: at first the Americans said that they needed much more time, there were a number of unsuccessful tests. Now they are announcing the completion of the design and creation of this weapon, as well as full testing,” Konovalov said.
According to him, the new American missile “will not become a breakthrough weapon.” “The characteristics declared by the Americans do not exceed those declared by the Russian Federation,” Konovalov said.
As the expert noted, Russia has the competencies to counter the new American missile. “The latest Russian air defense systems are an excellent counter-argument for this weapon,” Konovalov summed up.
The editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, Viktor Murakhovsky, emphasized in an interview with TASS that the stage in the development of hypersonic weapons, achieved by the Americans, was passed by the Soviet Union. “Judging by what the Americans have published, they tested a demonstrator of a hypersonic cruise missile capable of speeds up to Mach five [up to Mach five]. This is the stage that the Soviet Union went through when it created the 4202 product, a hypersonic unit,” the expert said. …
On Monday, September 27, the US Department of Defense announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has successfully tested a hypersonic missile that is five times the speed of sound. The Pentagon did not specify the designation of the rocket, but it is known that it was created by the American corporation Raytheon Technologies.
