![]() ![]() The Pentagon's budget request in the 2022 fiscal year for hypersonic research was $3.8 billion which was up from $3.2 billion they year before. But cruise missiles are inferior to hypersonic weapons because they have a shorter range, are far slower and more vulnerable to being detected and shot down.īoth Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies are working on hypersonic weapons for the Pentagon. uses cruise missiles which are mature technologies costing less than $5 million per unit to strike deep into enemy territory. ![]()
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