The US Pacific Army has admitted that the United States has deployed land-based intermediate-range missiles in the Philippines, and the United States has directly aimed at China for the first time in its deployment of land-based intermediate-range missiles after tearing up the "INF Treaty" with Russia. The Philippines is right on China's doorstep, and the BrahMos cruise missiles that the Philippines purchased from India can cover many of China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea. The U.S. medium-range missile approaching China is an important step for the United States to actively promote the "Indo-Pacific strategy", and the United States has stopped pretending at the critical moment because it wants to support the Philippine provocation in the South China Sea.
At a time when the United States is actively promoting the development and deployment of medium-range missiles, Britain has become more confident, according to British media reports, Britain has announced the development of hypersonic missiles. The British press confirmed British plans to equip hypersonic missiles by 2030. In fact, at present, the United States does not have a formal installation of hypersonic missiles, otherwise it would not be a land-based Tomahawk cruise missile deployed in the Philippines. The U.S. Pacific Army was originally going to conduct a test launch of the "Dark Eagle" hypersonic missile at the end of 2023, but due to a sudden failure, it was impossible to conduct a test launch, and the subsequent U.S. Pacific Army did not announce the test launch plan.
The United States is already bent on developing hypersonic missiles, and without the restrictions of the INF Treaty, the United States has "let itself go", so when promoting land-based Tomahawks, there are also hypersonic missiles. The UK has not joined the INF Treaty, so there is not much psychological burden, judging by the information released by the UK, the UK plans to develop a hypersonic cruise missile, so it is likely to adopt the model of the Russian "Zircon" hypersonic missile. Russia already has a number of hypersonic missiles in service, which have become "Zircon", as well as the "Dagger" series, the "Dagger" is a model carried by MiG-31K fighters, and like the "Zircon", they have already been used in the conflict of the Ukrainian crisis.
The United States is developing hypersonic missiles to establish deterrence against China and Russia, and Britain is following the pace of the United States and is also targeting China and Russia. China also has hypersonic missile equipment, the first public demonstration was the "Dongfeng"-17 hypersonic missile, and judging by the public information, the anti-ship ballistic missile system used to strike aircraft carriers is also likely to be in the category of hypersonic missiles. The United States is quite uneasy about the progress of China and Russia in the field of hypersonic missiles, and now the United Kingdom is also beginning to make moves to try to develop hypersonic missiles.
Like the United States, the focus of Britain's foreign strategy is on China and Russia, and Britain already has warships deployed in the Asia-Pacific region for a long time, highlighting Britain's strategy of intervening in the Asia-Pacific region. Judging from Britain's planning, Britain wants to continue to increase the scale of military spending, and it has the intention of pointing the spearhead directly at China. When the United States is actively encircling and containing China, Britain will not install it, and will cooperate with the United States to provide Australia with nuclear submarines, in addition to deploying aircraft carrier strike groups in the Asia-Pacific region, so after developing hypersonic missiles in the future, Britain will also use them for deterrence cruise missions in the Asia-Pacific region.