Is the United States launched 28 satellite tracking China -Russia missiles?

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] "Behind China and Russia in the field of hypersonic missiles" made the Pentagon worry. In addition to accelerating the development of various models of hypersonic missiles to shorten the technical gap with China and Russia, the U.S. military also spent heavy money and strives to build an early warning system for hypersonic missiles.

The "Voice of the United States" reported on the 18th that the United States will allocate $ 1.3 billion to develop advanced warning satellites that can better track hypersonic missiles. The Director of the Aerospace Development Bureau of the US Department of Defense said that these satellites will allow the United States to expand and strengthen the ability to respond to "China's increasingly increased hypersonic weapon threat". It is reported that the two major U.S. military giants, L3 Harris Technology Company and Nosyerp Grumman, each obtained 14 new types of new forecast satellites. Coupled with the cost of launch and ground control and support, the total cost of this project is about 2.5 billion US dollars. Tuniar said that there have been no satellites that can be discovered and tracking hypersonic weapons in the history of the United States. At present, "we have limited ability to track the relevant aspects", but "it is clear that our ability to track is not zero."

In March 2020, the U.S. military conducted missile tests on the Pacific Ocean of the Island of Hawaii in March 2020, launched and completed the various flight tests of the Navy, Army, and Air Force's general high supersonic gliding bodies (C-HGB). Picture source: Visual China

The US "Defense News" previously introduced that because the hypersonic missile can quickly move in the atmosphere, it makes the U.S. military's existing anti -missile system cannot accurately track and predict its trajectory. At the same time Detects its whereabouts at a long distance. These have caused a new generation of anti -warning warning satellites deployed in space to become the preferred tool for the Pentagon for hypersonic missiles.

Tuniar said that the new satellite constellation allows the United States to monitor the launch of the hypersonic missile from space in real time and track its orbit. It can calculate its flight trajectory in a very short period of time and provide relevant data to the anti -missile system to the anti -missile system Essence He revealed that in order to achieve global monitoring, the first group of satellites will run at a lower track of 1,000 kilometers, and another group of satellites will run in mid -rails of 10,000 to 20,000 kilometers. After the first batch of 28 satellites was launched, about 64 second batch of satellites will be launched.

In addition to creating a Sky -based satellite detection network for high supersonic missiles, the United States is also accelerating the progress of the development of similar weapons. The Associated Press said on the 18th that the "hypersonic supersonic conceptual weapon" jointly developed by Ray Shen and Noshoper Gouman successfully completed the second flight test. This is the third time the United States has successfully fired the hypersonic missile in a week. On July 13, the U.S. military announced that the air-based AGM-183A hypersonic missile and the land-based "combat firepower" hypersonic missile successfully launched successfully. (Ma Jun)

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