{"id":77226,"date":"2018-03-28T07:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/russia-and-china-are-aggressively-developing-hypersonic-weapons-heres-what-they-are-and-why-the-us-cant-defend-against-them"},"modified":"2018-03-28T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:02:41","slug":"russia-and-china-are-aggressively-developing-hypersonic-weapons-heres-what-they-are-and-why-the-us-cant-defend-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/russia-and-china-are-aggressively-developing-hypersonic-weapons-heres-what-they-are-and-why-the-us-cant-defend-against-them","title":{"rendered":"Russia and China are \u2018aggressively developing\u2019 hypersonic weapons \u2014 here\u2019s what they are and why the US can\u2019t defend against them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-and-china-are-aggressively-developing-hypersonic-weapons-heres-what-they-are-and-why-the-us-cant-defend-against-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us,\u201d Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.Strategic Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities,\u201d Hyten added. \u201cWe\u2019ve watched them test those capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR2137.html\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR2137.html\">Researchers and engineers at Rand explain<\/a> what a hypersonic weapon is, which countries are developing them and how the U.S. could look to defend against them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/21\/hypersonic-weapons-what-they-are-and-why-us-cant-defend-against-them.html?__source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/21\/hypersonic-weapons-what-they...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us,\u201d Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.Strategic Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. \u201cBoth Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities,\u201d Hyten added. \u201cWe\u2019ve watched them test those capabilities.\u201d Researchers and engineers at Rand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77226","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}