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洛歇馬田在短短兩天內獲得超過30億美元政府合約，因為軍方擔心俄羅斯和中國的進步
Lockheed Martin Awarded Over $3 Billion in Govt Contracts in Just Two Days, As Military Frets About Russian, Chinese Advances
洛歇馬田在短短兩天內獲得超過30億美元政府合約，因為軍方擔心俄羅斯和中國的進步
Lockheed Martin Awarded Over $3 Billion in Govt Contracts in Just Two Days, As Military Frets About Russian, Chinese Advances
Concern about new Russian and Chinese hypersonic missile systems is not merely related to fears that the U.S. rivals will “outshine” in terms of technological superiority.
August 16th, 2018
ASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force announced within the span of two days earlier this week that it had awarded over $3.3 billion in contracts to U.S. weapons giant Lockheed Martin. The first of these contracts, totaling $480 million, was announced on Monday and tasked Lockheed with designing a new “hypersonic” missile. The new missile, known as the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), is the second “hypersonic” missile under development at Lockheed, as the U.S. Air Force awarded a $928 million contract to the company this past April to develop the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) program.
The second contract, totaling a sizable $2.9 billion, was awarded to Lockheed on Tuesday and tasks the company with creating three missile-warning satellites, with each satellite set to cost just under $1 billion each.
What grave threat has prompted the U.S. military to spend over $3 billion on new missiles in just four months? According to military officials, the answer is Russia and China, as statements made earlier this year by Air Force officials clearly show that new missiles developed by Russia and China are significantly superior to those currently used by the U.S.
In January, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, told reporters, “We have lost our technical advantage in hypersonics; we haven’t lost the hypersonics fight,” adding that “China has made it a national program, so China’s willing to spend tens up to hundreds of billions to solve the problem of hypersonic flight, hypersonic target designation, and then ultimately engagement.”
A few months later in March, Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “we [U.S.] don’t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon [hypersonic missiles] against us.” Hyten also stated that “both Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities. We have watched them test those capabilities.”
Indeed, Hyten’s warning came just weeks after Russia tested a new hypersonic missile in March that can “rip U.S. air defense apart” and render NATO’s missile-defense system “useless.”
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