{"id":23319,"date":"2016-03-09T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/hypersonic-arms-race-heats-up-as-u-s-builds-high-speed-missiles"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:53:32","slug":"hypersonic-arms-race-heats-up-as-u-s-builds-high-speed-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/hypersonic-arms-race-heats-up-as-u-s-builds-high-speed-missiles","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic Arms Race Heats Up as U.S. Builds High-Speed Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypersonic-arms-race-heats-up-as-u-s-builds-high-speed-missiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Ash Carter disclosed last week that the Pentagon\u2019s new high-technology weapons to deal with threats from China and Russia will include ultra-high speed missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Carter revealed during a speech in California that part of the $71.8 billion for weapons research and development this year will fund \u201cnew hypersonic missiles that can fly over five times the speed of sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, the general in charge of Air Force weapons research, Maj. Gen. Thomas Masiello, revealed that two technology prototypes of hypersonic strike weapons, a scramjet powered cruise missile and a hypersonic glider, could be ready in four years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/hypersonic-arms-race-heats-up-as-u-s-builds-high-speed-missiles\/\">http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/hypersonic-arms-race...-missiles\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Ash Carter disclosed last week that the Pentagon\u2019s new high-technology weapons to deal with threats from China and Russia will include ultra-high speed missiles. Carter revealed during a speech in California that part of the $71.8 billion for weapons research and development this year will fund \u201cnew hypersonic missiles that can fly over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50928,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions\/50928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}