Would the rest between Donald Trump and Russia be consumed? The US president was little led this Saturday with the country of Vladimir Putin.
On the occasion of a speech held to the American armies during the Graduation of the West Point School, Donald Trump said that the United States had invented the concept of hypersonic missile and that it had been “stolen.”
“Eight cadets present today have assumed the challenge of designing their own hypersonic rocket,” he said. We could help you build them now. You know, ours was stolen from us. We are the designers. He was stolen from us under the administration of Obama. Do you know who stole it? The Russians. What was something serious? “
This is not the first time that the US president has made such accusations. Last January, during an interview with Fox News, Donald Trump had already assured that “Russia [avait] They stole the plan, obtained it from us. “
An intercontinental missile
But not even this Saturday, not even last January, the US president provided evidence to support this statement of the Russian “robbery” that would have taken place during the Presidency of Obama.
In any case, Russia has assured that you have already used a hypersonic weapon, but the pentagon and experts have doubts about the exact nature of the missile.
Last November, Ukraine was beaten by an innaclearized intercontinental missile.
As the name implies, an intercontinental missile can reach one continent from another. Technically, according to international treaties, this means that it has a range of more than 5,500 kilometers. As for the term “ballistic”, it designates a self -propelled and guided projectile, whose trajectory depends on gravity and its speed.
In this type of scope, this trajectory implies the theory through space. Russia and the United States developed the first at the end of the 1950s to win a nuclear position. But in this case, the missile used by Moscow did not carry a nuclear load or even, according to experts, without charge. And he probably did not leave the atmosphere at such a short distance.
Several experts had mentioned last November the possibility of shooting a “RS-26 Rubez” missile, a weapon whose development had been arrested in 2018. Vladimir Putin said a few months ago to maintain hypersonic ballistic weapons technology. The Russian president has affirmed on television that the army has “tested one of the most recent Russian missile systems, in this case a ballistic missile in its non -nuclear hypersonic configuration. Our missile engineers have baptized ‘Orechnik’.”
3 km per second
Even so, according to Russia, this missile could reach hypersonic speeds that are so, at least five times the speed of sound. In this case, the Kremlin head communicated at a speed of Mach 10, between 11,000 and 12,000 km/h. The speed is important, because the more a missile moves, the faster its goal reaches. And the faster it reached its goal, the less the armed forces have time to react.
Vladimir Putin said that “today there is no way that there is no way to counteract such weapons. The missiles attack the objectives at the speed of Mach 10, 2.5 to 3 kilometers per second. Air defense systems currently available worldwide and antimile defense systems created by Americans in Europe do not interact these missiles.”
China and Russia make sure they have put hypersonic weapons, while North Korea and Iran claim to have developed and proven similar systems. At the end of March 2025, the United States conducted an antimile defense test by drawing a simulated interceptor on a hypersonic objective above the Pacific.
For its part, the European Commission has already assigned at least 80 million euros to the program of the hypersonic interception system through the European Defense Fund (Fed). A program that will select the best interceptors to counteract hypersonic threats.
Source: BFM TV
