Not long after China and Russia claimed to have developed hypersonic missiles/hypersonic glide vehicles, we have come up with a successful test of one of our own.
The sole purpose of this technology is to deliver a sneak nuclear attack to the enemy, whichever that is. There is little or no current ability by any nation to detect these incoming missiles in time to launch any sort of counter response, if they can even be detected at all.
So of course, now that such technology is within reach because of other rocketry and space tech advances, every nation that can is working hard to develop hypersonic glide weapons of mass destruction. Soon, many nations will have them and those who don’t and can afford to, will buy them from those who do.
This way, huge sums of tax money extracted from the people of all these nations will be spent on weapons that will never be used, instead of taxing them less and letting them have and enjoy what they worked hard for.
Isn’t that wonderful?