U.S. TESTS FIRST HYPERSONIC GLIDE BODY, CHALLENGING RUSSIA'S ADVANCED NUCLEAR WEAPONS LEAD AD Loading ... The United States has tested its first hypersonic glide vehicle, challenging Russia's lead in advanced weapons it, too, has been developing for years. The U.S. Navy and Army, monitored by the Missile Defense Agency, announced Friday that they jointly conducted the launch of "a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point." The flight experiment took place Thursday at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, and a Pentagon readout said it "will inform its ongoing development of systems designed to defend against adversary hypersonic weapons." The U.S. military said it has a "goal of fielding hypersonic warfighting capabilities in the early- to mid-2020s." Lead vehicle designer Vice Admiral Johnny R. Wolfe, director of ...
The great strength of American capitalism is also its great weakness, namely, its extremely high weapons productivity. A number of factors have produced increases in productivity, like, the mechanization of the production process that got under way in England as early as the 18th century. In the early 20th century, then, American industrialists made a contribution in the form of automatiion. ..Amor Patriae