Mark Lewis, CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute, says Beijing has been copying America's homework for years, letting Chinese defense firms stride ahead in hypersonics.
China copies U.S. homework on hypersonic missiles, expert says
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"Every time we war-gamed various scenarios when I was at the Pentagon, when we were facing an adversary that had these advanced missile capabilities and we didn't have an effective system or our own offensive system, we lost — every single time," he said. "We need these capabilities if we're going to compete with our potential peer adversaries."
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