Aside from battling against Coronavirus spread in the country, the United States of America is still advancing its war machinery and weapons for possible world war. In fact, today, Mar. 20, the US Pentagon officially announced that the army has now successfully test-driven its newest and possibly the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built in the country, a prototype hypersonic missile that can travel up to five times the speed of sound.
New nuclear weapon missile unlocked by US Pentagon: What are you up to, America?
Today, Mar. 20, the US Pentagon released a video of its successful launch of an unarmed prototype of a hypersonic missile that is nuclear-capable, reportedly added in order to advance the country's nuclear war weapons.
According to the agency, the test glide vehicle can fly in a designated target at an impressive speed of more than five times the speed of sound or called Mach 5.
"Today, we validated our design and are now ready to move to the next phase towards fielding a hypersonic strike capability," Vice-Admiral Johnny Wolfe said in a statement.
This project started in 2017 when the US Army and Navy flight made their first joint on creating hypersonic missiles. Impressively, this nuclear missile has more powerful abilities to be much "faster than current nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles at low altitudes, can switch direction in flight and do not follow a predictable arc like conventional missiles, making them much harder to track and intercept."
Reports suggest that this hypersonic nuclear-capable missile can be a preparation for missile warfare between the US and other military countries like North Korea, Russia, or even China.
Is the US preparing for this massive military war?
As explained by the South China Morning Post, though the hypersonic missile is still unarmed as of now, the image of the US having this powerful nuclear-capable missile can trigger an alarm to its military enemies-- which may suggest that it could be preparing for the next World War or the World War 3.
"There is increasing investment in and deployment of hypersonic weapons that will severely limit response times available to targeted nations and create a dangerous degree of ambiguity and uncertainty," written in "Doomsday Clock," assessment made by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. "This uncertainty could lead to a rapid escalation of military conflicts. At a minimum, these weapons are highly destabilizing and presage a new arms race."
US added budget from National Fund to develop arms race
America has not yet explained why the army continues to develop and advanced its arms race. What's clear is that the country just added a huge budget to the development of hypersonic programs for the year 2021.
The US Defence Department requested US$3.2 billion for hypersonic programs for fiscal 2021 budget and can raise from US$2.6 billion in the current year. As explained, the agency aims to give a higher budget to the arms race in order to finish developments by 2023.
"Delivering hypersonic weapons is one of the department's highest technical research and engineering priorities," the Pentagon said.
