The Global Hypersonic Race

... deterrence hypersonic vehicles. Mike White, the Pentagon’s assistant director for hypersonics, announced that the department had a three-step plan for the development... ... capabilities, then in defensive systems, and finally, at least ten years from now, in reusable airborne hypersonic vehicles. The Pentagon’s spending on hypersonic projects... ... Japan has stated its intent to create a High-Speed Gliding Missile, an equivalent of Russia’s Avangard. Minister of the Armed Forces of France Florence Parly has announced...