{"id":1874299,"date":"2023-03-10T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-not-in-hypersonic-weapons-arms-race-with-china-and-russia-dod-official-says\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:17:29","slug":"us-not-in-hypersonic-weapons-arms-race-with-china-and-russia-dod-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-not-in-hypersonic-weapons-arms-race-with-china-and-russia-dod-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US not in hypersonic weapons &#8216;arms race&#8217; with China and Russia, DOD official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-not-in-hypersonic-weapons-arms-race-with-china-and-russia-dod-official-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1874299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_77603459\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"China will target the US homeland in war over Taiwan, Army leader predicts\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"China will attack the American homeland if \"a major war\" erupts over Taiwan or elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. Army's top civilian expects. \"If we got into a major war with China, the United States homeland would be at risk as well with both kinetic attacks and non-kinetic attacks \u2014 whether it's cyberattacks on the power grid or on pipelines,\" Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Monday at the American Enterprise Institute. \"They are going to go after the will of the United States public. They're going to try to erode support for a conflict.\"\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M58S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-02-28 16:34:58\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/snapshot\/1248756_th_1677603340.jpg\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1248756.mp4\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_77603459\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1248756\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The top Defense Department official focuses on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hypersonic-weapons\">Hypersonic weapons<\/a> Does not believe that the United States is engaged in an arms race against it <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\">China<\/a> And <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a group of defense officials gave evidence to a House subcommittee about the U.S. hypersonic weapon program. These systems travel five times faster than sound and are more maneuverable than those of adversaries.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/patriotism-unity\/us-has-growing-concern-over-chinas-relationship-with-russia\">US HAS GROWING CONCERN OVER CHINA&#8217;S RELATIONSHIP TO RUSSIA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important to note that the United States is not engaged in an arms race, but instead, hypersonic strike systems are needed to preserve deterrence because they offer a critical regional advanced strike capability that will complement existing joint force strike options,&#8221; Michael White, principal director for Hypersonics in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering told the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.<\/p>\n<p>White responded to questions about what constitutes an arms race. &#8220;I define an arms race in the traditional sense of a numerical parity. They have 47 widgets, so we need 50.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael Horowitz, director of the Emerging Capabilities Policy Office for the Pentagon, informed subcommittees that the department is planning on. &#8220;develop conventionally armed regionally based hypersonic weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Offensive hypersonic systems will be especially critical on a battlefield where the adversary has deployed high-end defensive and anti-access systems designed to<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/us-not-in-hypersonic-weapons-arms-race\">Official at the DOD says that the US is not participating in hypersonic weapon &#8216;arms races&#8217; with Russia and China.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top Defense Department official focuses on Hypersonic weapons Does not believe that the United States is engaged in an arms race against it China And Russia. On Friday, a group of defense officials gave evidence to a House subcommittee about the U.S. hypersonic weapon program. These systems travel five times faster than sound and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4834,4501,11570,8915,4808,5069,4280,7788],"class_list":["post-1874299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-arms","tag-china","tag-dod","tag-hypersonic","tag-official","tag-race","tag-russia","tag-weapons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}