“The race of high-tech weapons, including hypersonic ones, is undoubtedly already underway.
There is nothing new in this - the competitive evolution of weapons systems goes back many hundreds of years, ”he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Thus, the Foreign Ministry spokesman commented on the statement of the United States and Australia on the launch of a new project - SCIFiRE - to jointly develop long-range hypersonic weapons using a ramjet engine.
He also added that "already about a dozen" countries are engaged in the development of hypersonic weapons.
“Perhaps more.
It is not within the competence of the Foreign Ministry to assess the feasibility of their plans to achieve practical results, ”Ermakov said.
Earlier it was reported that since 2012, Russia has conducted five successful test launches of an intercontinental ballistic missile with a hypersonic gliding cruise unit Avangard.