He stated this during a speech at the Center for International Strategic Studies in Washington.
“The ministry almost doubled its investment - almost $ 5 billion more in fiscal 2020 for hypersonic weapons alone in the next five years. Our budget - 2021 will be even more significant, ”RIA Novosti quotes Esper’s words.
He noted that the Pentagon accelerates flight tests and other experiments in the development of hypersonic weapons.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces, General John Haiten, said that the United States was not able to speed up a number of promising military developments, including in the field of creating hypersonic weapons, even though it understood the lag behind other powers.