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> tested and verified. No, they are not. Your own link says “allegedly” or “near” wrt to. Chinese and Russian. Zero verification. Breathless claims are just th

> tested and verified. No, they are not. Your own link says “allegedly” or “near” wrt to. Chinese and Russian. Zero verification. Breathless claims are just that. We’ll see probbly see fusion before a self-sustaining hypersonic weapon. Ballistic missiles posing as hyper uberweapons aren’t new. They’re 60 year old tech. The Navy has deployed SM-3, SM-6 and other ABM weapons more than a decade back for that threat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3

jqpabc123 4y ago
No, they are not. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff disagrees with your assessment. The top U.S. military officer, General Mark Milley, has provided the first official U.S. confirmation of a Chinese hypersonic weapons test ... "What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system. And it is very concerning," Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Bloomberg television, in an interview aired on Wednesday [Oct 2021]. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/top-us-general-confirms-very-concerning-chinese-hypersonic-weapons-test-2021-10-27/ https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/top-us-ge... You and the Navy can choose to ignore it but all the facts show that carriers are now obsolete weapons of war when deployed against our biggest enemies.