Private Pentagon Report Shows Hurdles to Hypersonic Weapons
- Testing office says new weapons need wide swaths of airspace
- Defense chief Austin meets with defense company CEOs Thursday
A U.S. Air Force B-52 aircraft carries a prototype air-launched hypersonic weapon.
Source: U.S. Air Force
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The Pentagon doesn’t have enough wide-open spaces on its missile test ranges to thoroughly evaluate new hypersonic weapons for the U.S., according to the military’s testing office.
It also lacks key capabilities to adequately test the threat from incoming versions that adversaries including China and Russia are developing.