A flight test of a hypersonic missile system in Hawaii on Wednesday ended in failure due to a problem that occurred after ignition, the US Department of Defense said, delivering a fresh blow to a program that has experienced stumbles.
It did not provide details of what took place in the test, but said in an e-mailed statement that “the department remains confident that it is on track to field offensive and defensive hypersonic capabilities on target dates beginning in the early 2020s.”
“An anomaly occurred following ignition of the test asset,” Pentagon spokesman US Navy Lieutenant Commander Tim Gorman said in
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 03, 2021 at 1:46 PM
Modifications to the latest version of the Navy DDG-51 destroyer, the Flight III. CREDIT: GAO
WASHINGTON: Days after a leading congressman criticized the Navy’s 2022 budget for buying only one Aegis destroyer instead of two, the Navy released an unfunded requirements list with that second destroyer right at the top of the chart. The almost $1.7 billion line item was almost certainly on the draft list before Rep. Joe Courtney’s public critique, but the House seapower chairman’s reaction can only have helped cement its place as the No. 1 thing the Navy would like Congress to add to its budget request. (Since it’s likely to be added to the annual spending bill anyway because of the high congressional interest, it makes it even easier to put it on the list…)
Joseph Maguire. A copy of the unclassified letter was obtained by Inside the Ring.
The letter urged the DNI to use intelligence to counter enemy coercion and subversion and help the American military “win without fighting” by engaging in similar gray zone warfare against China and Russia.
Specifically, the commanders asked for “ammunition in the ongoing war of narratives” by releasing intelligence that the military can use publicly.
“The main battlespace for this struggle is largely in the public domain,” says the letter, organized by then-Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm.
Philip S. Davidson. “Therefore we request a significantly upgraded effort to routinely inject intelligence derivatives into that arena.”