Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested
Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested

You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems,” said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.

DoD Needs To Sharpen Hypersonics Oversight: GAO

DoD Needs To Sharpen Hypersonics Oversight: GAO
DoD Needs To Sharpen Hypersonics Oversight: GAO

GAO notes that efforts to defend against Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles are much less mature than offensive efforts, with much less funding. Only 12 of 70 projects tracked by GAO related to defenses; DoD requested $207 million in 2021 for hypersonic defense, up from $157 million in 2020.