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US Hypersonic Missile Fails in Test in Fresh Setback for Program

"A flight test of a hypersonic missile system in Hawaii ended in failure due to a problem that took place after ignition, the Department of Defense said, delivering a fresh blow to a program that has suffered stumbles."

(One thing I have learned from reading as much as I do through the years? The programs that suffer through stumbles in their development? Really don't function that well as a finished product. Just my two cents)

"It didn’t provide further details of what took place in the Wednesday test", but said in a statement sent by email “the Department remains confident that it is on track to field offensive and defensive hypersonic capabilities on target dates beginning in the early 2020s.”

("It didn’t provide further details of what took place in the Wednesday test" 

Translation:

Its so bad were embarrassed to say what happened.)

“the Department remains confident that it is on track to field offensive and defensive hypersonic capabilities on target dates beginning in the early 2020s.”

Does the department of defense not have a calendar?

Do they not know what year it is?

Were half the way through 2022.

When does it quit being early 2020's exactly?)

"The trial marked the second unsuccessful test flight of the prototype weapon known as Conventional Prompt Strike. There was a booster failure in its first flight test in October, which prevented the missile from leaving the launch pad."

"China is investing heavily in hypersonic weapons, putting one in orbit in July of last year that flew 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) in more than 100 minutes of flight, according to the top US nuclear commander.

(15,000 mph, we don't have anything that can catch it, and its maneuverable, imagine being a baseball player trying to hit a curveball and when you swing at it it curves the other direction, that's kinda what along the lines of what were talking about here.)

"Russia debuted a hypersonic air-to-ground missile in its attack on Ukraine."

(Just to let ya know they had em and they werent afraid to use them. Marked the first time one was used in a theatre of conflict.)

“You recently called in the defense industrial community that were involved in the hypersonics development as to how we can speed that up,” Republican Representative Mike Turner of Ohio said. (Addressing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin) “We’re behind our adversaries.”

You can say that again.

“We’re behind our adversaries.”