hypersonic rockets that Trump mentioned: 5 times faster than sound speed (Photo)

US President Donald Trump said many super fast hypersonic missiles are currently being tested.

According to foreign media, such a statement comes after the US Army awarded a contract of $2.5 billion to the airline and defence company Lockheed Martin to build them with the goal of having at least one ready by the end of next year.

The mention by Trump for supersonic missiles was made briefly during his address to the media on Wednesday, while speaking of tensions with Iran, only hours after Iranian forces rocketed military bases sheltering American troops in Iraq.

It's not a secret that the US has worked on developing hypersonic weapons, but Trump's speech meant such missiles are already under construction.

Our “Our missiles are large, powerful, precise, lethal and fast-painted, said Trump.

The combination of speed, maneuvering and altitude of hypersonic missiles can make them difficult to track and track. As it becomes known, they travel more than five times from sound speed or about 3,853 miles per hour.

Some will even travel up to 15,000 miles per hour, which, according to weapons researchers, is about 25 times faster than modern passenger planes.

There are two categories of hypersonic weapons: hypersonic vehicles that are launched by a rocket before slipping into a target and hypersonic navigation missiles that are enabled by high-speed engines, following their target.

It is not clear what kind of hypersonic weapons he referred to Trump in his words.

> Unlike ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons do not follow a ballistic trajectory and can maneuver along their way to their destination.

The United States, China and Russia have so far focused on research and developments in both categories of hypersonic weapons both can carry conventional or nuclear loads. abcnea)