Hypersonic or just overhyped? Amid Russian failures, U.S. doubles down on super-fast missiles

The long-awaited battlefield debut of hypersonic weapons was largely a bust. But experts say it had much more to do with who pulled the trigger than underlying problems with the technology itself.

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