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2/2: #IIndo-Pacific: PRC technology advances: US looks for hypersonic air defense. Mark Montgomery, FDD. Bradley Bowman, FDD

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

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2/2: #IIndo-Pacific: PRC technology advances: US looks for hypersonic air defense. Mark Montgomery, FDD. Bradley Bowman, FDD
https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2024/01/19/the-us-is-failing-to-quickly-field-hypersonic-missile-defense/

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This is CBS. I'm in the world. I'm John Vashr with Brad Bowman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy to help me through some terms of art in the US military preparation

0:47.1

for the worst case scenario, a war with a near peer or peer adversary that would be China and Russia but especially China when it comes

0:56.8

to the topic of hypersonic missiles. Hypersonic missiles glide pass an array of new terminology no longer just you throw it up in the air and it comes down somewhere in Russia

1:09.1

Brad, thank you very much. What fundamental? what is a hypersonic missile?

1:14.0

Why all this attention suddenly?

1:16.0

Good evening.

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Good evening again to you, John.

1:19.0

You know, a hypersonic missile is a missile at the most basic level that travels at the speeds above Mach 5.

1:26.0

That's greater than one mile per second.

1:28.0

And here's the thing that gets confusing and some commentaries get sloppy on this is that there are many existing

1:33.5

ballistic missiles that travel at that speed. That's not what what I'm talking

1:38.0

about and what Mark Montgomery are talking about in our recent defense news

1:41.2

a bed. We're talking about Chinese capabilities

1:44.8

that are fielded and that they're honing,

1:47.3

that yes, travel above Mock-5,

1:49.9

but then they launch a hypersonic glide vehicle that then maneuvers.

1:56.2

So the threats we're talking about and the threats that the Pentagon warned about in its annual

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