Russia and China do not want to exchange nuclear strikes more than the United States, transfers the American edition of the SPACENEWS statement of the former deputy defense for research and technical development of the United States (with the administration of President Donald Trump) Michael Griffin.
According to him, at present, Moscow and Beijing have less developed conventional armed forces than Washington. On the other hand, the presence of hypersonic planning devices gives Russia and China an advantage over the United States. “They can lower us to their level with the help of proper devastating technology. Hypersonic weapons are such a devastating technology,” the former head of NASA (under the administration of George Bush Jr.).
Griffin called the horrific ratio of the cost of Russia and China to produce rockets that can destroy the American aircraft carrier to its cost. “They launch a rocket worth, maybe several million dollars or even tens of millions of dollars, and two or three of them can destroy the aircraft carrier,” said former defense minister.
According to Griffin, to counteract the Russian and Chinese threat to the United States, the satellite groupings should be actively developing, allowing to track rocket threats, and an order to increase investments in the development of own hypersonic weapons.
Thus, the former head of NASA responded to the test, presumably, the system of partially orbital bombing conducted in July.
In December 2019, in the column at Defense News, the former US Deputy Minister of Defense for Research and Technical Development Posted that the Soviet Union lost to the United States in the Cold War, since the second preferred where it is possible to use the principle “Money instead of blood” .
In March 2018, Griffin stated that in the 2020s, a neutron gun will be one of the promising types of weapons in outer space.