He spoke about this during a speech at a hearing at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate.

According to Billingsley, the United States at this stage is not engaged in the creation of hypersonic systems in nuclear equipment.

“The United States, as I understand it, is not developing nuclear weapons of this type, but hypersonic ones in conventional equipment. These (weapons. - RT ), I think, will become important equalizers for us, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, "the TASS official is quoted as saying.

He recalled that the United States is lagging behind China in testing hypersonic weapons.

On March 20, the US Department of Defense announced a successful test of the gliding hypersonic unit in Hawaii.

As US President Donald Trump noted, a hypersonic missile will be capable of hitting targets at a distance of 1.6 thousand km.