Hypersonic Resources as Contemporary Threat to National Security. Analysis of Current State of Research

Abstract

The article presents research results on contemporary hypersonic resources (including hypersonic weapon) in the context of a threat to national security. The author discusses the state of research on such resources, their capabilities and development phases, as well as potential threats they can pose. The analysis has been done separately for each country in which such resources are being developed. Today, there are five of them: the United States, France, the Russian Federation, India, and the Republic of China. It is worth noting that these resources are in their different phases, from initial development concepts to objects with positive ballistic test results capable of reaching hypersonic and high-hypersonic speed. They seem to be a serious contemporary threat to national security for they are capable of carrying combat warheads, including thermonuclear and nuclear ones, and they can reach very high speed.