Hypersonic Glide Vehicles Versus Ballistic Missiles

Impact on Future Warfare

Abstract

The face of technology-based warfare has been seen to be changing, whether it was the Cold War bout between the USA and USSR or the present era confrontation between the US and China. The hidden expressions of these players were based on a deterrence-based reasoning 1 through the development of nuclear warhead carriage vehicles, hopping from strategic bombers in World War II to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) in the Cold War era, and presently moving to hypersonic weapons. The initial approach of developing military technology as a nuclear deterrence strategy has been reborn in the recent past and is evolving as a true symbol
of power for certain players.