The United States requires new space-based missile defense systems to counter the growing threat of hypersonic weapons, according to one expert. “As it relates to hypersonic or nuclear and conventional intercontinental ballistic missile or nuclear missiles, the United States must have immediately a space-based missile defense system,” Brandon Weichert, a geopolitical analyst and author, told EpochTV’s “Forbidden News” program. “Our military, knows that presently our current air defense network is not capable of stopping an incoming hypersonic attack.” Weichert’s claims followed reports that Russia conducted its first-ever combat usage of a hypersonic missile in Ukraine earlier in the week, as well as a number of incidents in which the Russian military has bombed targets on the border of NATO countries. Weichert warned of a growing “strategic imbalance” because the United States does not have the hypersonic weapons, capable of immense speed, that China and Russia do. “Americans … and our …