Where do we stand to where russia is? the uss plenty of intercontinental ballistic missiles and the disparity based on the new start treaty that was assigned by both nuclear powers. the difference in the game changer that is occurring in the last year s this evolution of a hypersonic muscles. and the u.s., according to the head of reiki on, is behind by about three years you heard general milley say last summer that when china tested its hypersonic muscle that that was a sputnik moment. a reference to how china had sprinted ahead much to the dismay of the u.s. military. or so back in february, defense secretary lloyd austin kathy asked the deputy met with 170 defense contractors on how to get the hypersonic program up to speed and to surpass china and russia. but russia and china have been demonstrating that they are making a lot of progress in hypersonic. that is really where the focus is right now in looking at the