US Army Faces Facts:Its Hypersonic Weapon To Miss a Deadline
A U.S Army Soldier lifts the hydraulic launching system on the new Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Source: U.S. Army
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Bowing to the obvious, the US Army acknowledged Thursday that it won’t meet a four-year-old goal to deploy a hypersonic weapon in the two remaining weeks of this month.
“It is not uncommon for fielding dates to adjust based on real-time developments,” the Army said in a statement Thursday to Bloomberg News. “We continue to aggressively pursue the testing and fielding of long-range hypersonic weapons. Our goal is to field the system as soon as possible following a successful test. It is a top modernization priority for the Army and for the Department of Defense.”