The Pentagon has promised to create hypersonic weapons earlier than expected.

The United States is actively engaged in the development of hypersonic weapons, which will go into service earlier than expected, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said at a meeting with a group of journalists.
"We're going to start flying (launching missiles) earlier and more often than people expected from us," Shanakhan told a small group of reporters, adding that the US approach to developing hypersonic weapons will be included in requests for future defense budgets.
Currently, the defense ministry is calculating how much money is needed for this.
In early September, US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Research Michael Griffin stated that the Pentagon needed no more than $ 20 billion to develop hypersonic weapons, similar to samples being developed in the PRC.
Earlier in his message to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin presented the newest types of Russian weapons, which have no analogues in the world. These are the Sarmat missile system, submarine drones, a cruise missile with a nuclear power plant, the Dagger aircraft missile system, a laser and hypersonic weapon.