Dont

 

just take my word for it.

Can the US catch China’s hypersonic missiles?

"Hypersonic weapons are highly maneuverable and extremely fast"

"It's been almost one year since China surprised the Pentagon and the world by carrying out a hypersonic glide vehicle test that traveled around the world and landed just two dozen miles from its target."

"The significance was it scared the hell out of everybody," Sen. Angus King told Fox News. "If the thing is dwelling over Kansas City, you're talking you're reducing 15 to 20 minutes to two to three minutes. That's a qualitative change."

"Some officials in the Pentagon described it as a "Sputnik" moment because the Chinese leapfrogged the U.S. with a technology that could evade billions of dollars of missile defense, setting off an arms race.

"Hypersonic weapons fly at speeds of at least Mach 5, are highly maneuverable, are able to change course during flight and can fly 100 feet above the ocean undetected."

"We're probably, I think, five years behind in terms of where the Chinese are," King said."

"Frankly, the Chinese and the Russians just plain got ahead of us," King said. "If our strategy in the Pacific is based upon aircraft carriers, and an aircraft carrier is vulnerable to a 6,000-mile-an-hour missile, we're in trouble."

(Oh were in trouble alright.)

"But, on Tuesday, just days after the failed test announcement, the Pentagon made it a point to announce two recent successful hypersonic tests."

(Does that strike anybody else as a lil odd? That just days after a failed test the pentagon announces two successful ones?")

"Russian scientists mocked the failed U.S. hypersonic glide vehicle test last week, saying the U.S. design model for hypersonic weapons is "too complex."

"Technological developments often determine the outcome of conflict," King said. "And hypersonic, to me, are the game-changing strategic difference in any future conflict that this country is engaged in. And we're behind."

Here is the thing, 

were not going to be allowed to catch up. 

Were just not.

Godspeed everybody.

I love you baby.