The Arny's hypersonic weapon failed (booster failure after launch from Alaska) but the Chinese hypersonic weapon passed its test.
Bummer.
I can see the logic: This is merely a hyper-expensive "drone" that doesn't need all that mess and inconvenience of actual troops or fliers crossing borders. Just "push the button" from a safely hidden Washington DC bunker, and blow up a supposed target half the wrold away quickly.
Now, you ARE spending 100,000,000.00 dollars to destroy a dirt building next to a tent that "night" have the one person you "think" might be be in the building. Maybe.
But it is like spending a 100,000.00 missile to destroy a 10,000.00 truck carrying supplies worth 1,500.00 dollars. You lose wars quickly if the leaders don't want to win wars.
They’ll work out the bugs.
I have great faith in our military-industrial complex. :-)
(Although no faith in their gay muslim CIC)
Maybe the Army should leave these missile systems to the Air Force and instead concentrate things like armored vehicles.
The Chinese have developed out of strategic necessity excellent shore to ship missiles. They would need to clear the Taiwan Strait of hostile naval forces in the event of war. They have sold these missiles to Iran. Iran has fortified the shallow narrow Persian Gulf where at least a dozen big blue water ships of the US Navy including two carriers are on station. It is conceivable that the US Navy faces a debacle worse than Pearl Harbor in 15 minutes. Call it the Geico scenario.
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In fact, the body of your post states that the Chinese test of their WU014 failed as well.
Your thread title is misleading.
A space platform rail gun would be much better.... and cheaper.
They won't give back our plans and it was the only copy we had.
Okay, this might be a fine, normal, and qualified lady who has put in long years and knows what she's talking about. But what is seen makes me wonder about things unseen: Is there affirmative discrimination against males in the engineering and technical end of things as well? That wouldn't go well at all.
B4L8R
The Russian hypersonic weapon also passed...
Maybe they had it upside down, when they lit the fuse, like the old buzz bombs on the 4th of July when it was too dark to read the directions.
You can learn more from failures than successes.