Today, I saw a netizen asking: "Does the United States have hypersonic missiles?" The answer is yes, but it is still being tested and not in service. The U.S. military is the No. 1 in global scientific and technological strength1. The advantage in military strength is obvious, but in the convenience of hypersonic **, it is not only behind China and Russia. Even lagging behind the DPRK.
In detail, the closest the United States is now to maturity should be, the ARRW hypersonic missile (that is, the improved AGM-183A). The missile failed in the first three tests, and the fourth test in 2023 was finally successful. The success of the test is only the first step in service, and after the test is successful, it must be finalized and tested before it can finally be put into service. From this point of view, even if the U.S. military accelerates its pace, it will take at least two or three years from finalization to mass production, and it is already a god speed for the U.S. military to enter service in 2025!
On the other hand, China's DF17 hypersonic missile was unveiled at the National Day parade in 2019 and has been in service for at least 5 years. Russia, as early as 2020, Putin said in his State of the Union address that it has built a series of hypersonic systems consisting of strategic hypersonic "Avangard missiles", tactical hypersonic "Dagger" missiles, and a series of high, medium and low combinations. And in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022, the Dagger missile also carried out actual combat and became a sharp weapon for Russia's penetration. Even North Korea has successfully developed several models of hypersonic missiles, and conducted experiments as early as 2021, faster than the radar waves detected by South Korea - South Korea stupidly claimed that the North Korean missile had fallen into the sea at the beginning! In fact, the speed of the missile has exceeded the ultrasonic speed of the radar, so the missile suddenly disappeared from the radar screen.
Of course, it is not known whether the North Brothers picked up the Chinese or Russian instructions in a certain mountain recess. In short, now in the development of hypersonic **, the US military can only rank fourth. However, the scientific research strength of the US military should not be underestimated, and hypersonic **, I believe that the US military will eventually have it.