Hypersonic missiles: US, UK and Australia agreement for the development of new weapons

USA, UK and Australia launch a joint initiative to develop together hypersonic missilesin competition with those already used by Russia, as part of the three-party alliance Aukus

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This was announced by a statement released in London, after what was already anticipated by sources close to President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Ukraine and the commitments for a rearmament of the West inside and outside NATO

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The three countries have decided to expand their military collaboration developing the new hypersonic missiles, capable of traveling at more than five times the speed of sound

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The decision came after the Russia used this type of ordnance in Ukraine

The announcement, in addition to the military aspect, has a political side, that is, it is a strengthening of the Aukusthe Anglo-American-Australian pact made last summer to provide Canberra nuclear-powered submarines with an anti-Chinese function

The news, in fact, was not well received by Beijing. The Chinese representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun who claimed that such deals are likely to drag other parts of the globe into similar conflicts to the Ukrainian one

Using the excuse of the crisis in Ukraine and the maintaining security of Asia-Pacific, USA, Great Britain and Australia “join forces on hypersonic weaponsincreasing the risk of nuclear proliferation and intensifying the arms race over which Asian nations should remain vigilant, is the comment of the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian

The agreement between the US, the UK and Australia also envisages a strengthening of the collaboration on the subject of cyber warfare, the development of quantum computers and sharing of intelligence information

The hypersonic missiles used by Russia travel above Mach 5, or five times faster than the speed of soundabove 5 thousand km / hour

The United States already have tested similar missiles while the United Kingdom and Australia they are in the early stages of development and will get a significant deal from the agreement acceleration of the program