The report states that the US hypersonic weapons will be more technically challenging to develop than nuclear-armed Chinese and Russian ones.
The United States is actively pursuing the development of hypersonic weapons in view of rising threats from Russia and China .
The report titled ‘Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress’ aims to highlight the questions that the U.S. Congress might face in sanctioning funds and selecting a program for Pentagon’s weapon development. This leads to the issue of a lack of mission requirements, which leads to a number of contrasting views on costs and quantities needed.
It also asks for conducting an assessment of the enabling technologies—“such as space-based sensors or autonomous command and control systems—that may be required to employ or defend against hypersonic weapons.”An earlier Congressional Budget Office assessment had stated that hypersonic weapons might cost one-third more than ballistic missiles of the same range with maneuverable warheads.
The report states that due to the lack of defined mission requirements for weapon development, it may be challenging for Congress to evaluate the balance of funding for hypersonic weapons programs, enabling technologies, supporting test infrastructure, and hypersonic missile defense.critics who state that the hypersonic weapon’s high speed and unpredictable flight path could generate uncertainty about its intended target.
The DOD is currently developing hypersonic weapons under the Navy’s CPS, and HALO program, as well as US Army’s LRHW, and HACM missions. These are in the process alongside several other programs being run by DARPA.
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