Armed up to 2030: US Congress requires a speedy introduction of a hypersonic interceptor
December 18 was reported in Defense News. Viewers say that it is a Glide Phase interceptor (GPI) interceptor, which is designed to intercept hypersonic missiles at the Gleasada stage. According to gross estimates, such an interceptor must be arrived in 2030, but Congress requires that the program reaches its initial operational potential by the end of 2029. This means that MDA not only should prove the ability to resist hypersonic rockets, but also put at least 12 GPIs up to the specified time.
Moreover, congressmen require that the program reaches full operational potential by the end of 2032, and the Pentagon should be armed with at least 24 interceptors by the end of 2040. In this case, the operational potential should include "sharing GPI with space or ground sensors, which, as the Ministry of Defense expects, will be deployed by the end of 2032.
" It is also reported that in order to activate these efforts, the Congress will additionally allocate $ 225 million to the $ 209 million in the agency requested by the agency for 24 financial year for hypersonic defense development. According to American expert Mark Montgomery, such steps of legislators are due to the fact that the geopolitical opponents of the United States have advanced in the field of hypersonic weapons.
"Russia and China have advanced forward; they may be a little ahead of us. But we spend 4 billion dollars a year to catch up with them in offensive hypersonic technique . . . We would like - the expert emphasized.