Can the US catch China’s hypersonic missiles?
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The chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces said that the U.S. military still is behind China in developing hypersonic weapons.
Jennifer Griffin currently serves as a national security correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) and is based out of the Washington D.C. bureau. She joined the network in October 1999 as a Jerusalem-based correspondent.
Some officials in the Pentagon described it as a "Sputnik" moment because the Chinese leapfrogged the U.S. with a technology that could evade billions of dollars of missile defense, setting off an arms race.
Hypersonic weapons fly at speeds of at least Mach 5, are highly maneuverable, are able to change course during flight and can fly 100 feet above the ocean undetected.
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