Trump unveils Space Force flag, Pentagon says his 'super duper' missiles are hypersonic weapons
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday revealed the official flag for the new U.S. Space Force, the first military branch created in seven decades. He also touted the development underway of what he called a "super duper missile" that could outdo foreign adversaries.
Trump said the flag will be displayed at the White House. The flag was presented to him in the Oval Office, where he also signed the 2020 Armed Forces Day Proclamation.
"Space is going to be the future both in terms of defense and offense and so many other things," Trump said. "We're now the leader in space."
Trump said the country is building "incredible military equipment at a level that nobody's ever seen before" and described a missile he said is being developed that is the "fastest in the world" and will outpace China and Russia.
"We have I call it the 'super duper missile,' and I heard the other night 17 times faster than what they have right now," Trump said. "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."
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany wouldn't comment further with specifics of what missile Trump was talking about when asked at a White House press briefing. But a Department of Defense official later said on Twitter that the U.S. is "developing a range of hypersonic missiles."
The Space Force was established late last year by the administration to protect U.S. assets in space. Trump has pointed to threats from China and Russia and the nation’s reliance on satellites for defense operations as reasoning for the sixth military branch.
He has said U.S. adversaries are targeting "Earth's orbits with new technology targeting American satellites."
Trump first revealed the Space Force logo in January, and it immediately drew comparisons to the insignia that represents the fictional Starfleet Command in the "Star Trek" movie franchise. The logo is a modified version of a pre-existing Air Force Space Command logo, however.
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"The delta in the middle is the symbol that the space communities used for years and years and years. The North Star signifies our core value, our guiding light, if you will. And the orbit around the globe signifies the space capabilities that fuel our American way of life and our American way of war," said Jay Raymond, the Space Force chief of space operations.
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