Kapil Kajal at Interesting Engineering reports that the U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that China’s hypersonic missiles could wipe out U.S. aircraft carriers in 20 minutes and that the U.S. loses every war game against China. He also flagged China’s growing control over the Panama Canal. A new U.S.-Panama deal allows U.S. military access to counter Beijing’s influence. Kajal writes:
In a rare admission, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the Chinese hypersonic missiles can destroy all US aircraft carriers in just 20 minutes.
“So far our [US] whole power projection platform is aircraft carrier and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe,” said Hegseth in a recent interview.
However, Hegseth added that China’s 15 hypersonic missiles “can take out 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of the conflict,” added Hegseth.
Hegseth said that the US “loses to China in every war game” run by the Pentagon. “China is building an army specifically designed to destroy the US.” […]
According to the DoD, China has the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal and has dramatically advanced its development of conventional and nuclear-armed hypersonic missile technologies.
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