Iran Press/ America: President Donald Trump claimed during an Oval Office event Friday that the US is developing a "super duper missile" to compete against America's adversaries, according to Business Insider.
"We're building, right now, incredible military equipment at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We have no choice with the adversaries we have out there," the president said.
"We have, I call it, the 'super duper missile,'" Trump continued. "I heard the other night, 17 times faster than what they have right now, when you take the fastest missile we have right now. You've heard Russia has five times and China's working on five or six times. We have one 17 times, and it's just gotten the go-ahead."
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper nodded along as Trump spoke but did not provide any details.
Asked for more information on what exactly the president was talking about, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said: "I'm going to have to refer you back to the White House on that. I don't have any information to give you on that."
"I would just refer you back to the president's remarks & the Pentagon. I don't have any new information on that at this point," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in response to questions about the weapon.
It is unclear to what specific weapon the US president may have been referring to in his comments, but the US is developing hypersonic weapons, a key area of competition with Russia and China.
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