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Washington will deploy the first battery of long-range hypersonic missiles by the end of the year, said General Anthony Cotton, head of the US Strategic Command. The military stressed that this direction is a priority.
“At the end of 2023, the army plans to deploy a battery of long-range hypersonic weapons, and in the mid-2020s, a conventional operational strike program for the Navy will begin,” RIA Novosti quotes the general.
In 2027, the US Navy will receive sea-based hypersonic missiles, such as the Russian Zircon, in 2027, according to a message from Lockheed Martin Corporation.
The United States can get the sea-launched missiles that only Russia has today. We are talking about the “Zircon”, which is armed with the frigate “Admiral Gorshkov”. The American company has already received a contract for the production of vertical launchers and the first production batches of CPS on-board hypersonic missiles.
The cost of the contract is 1.2 billion dollars, but it can be almost doubled. Hypersonic missiles will be deployed on three Zumwalt-class destroyers.
