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Navy/USMC

Admiral: Hypersonic Weapons Too Expensive, Industrial Base Too Small For Services To Work Alone

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

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Admiral: Hypersonic Weapons Too Expensive, Industrial Base Too Small For Services To Work Alone

A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility during a Defense Department flight experiment, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020.

A Navy official last week admitted the cost of hypersonic weapon development is too expensive and the existing industrial base is too small for the military services to not work together. During the Naval Submarine League annual symposium on Nov. 1, Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director of the Navy’s Strategic Systems Program office, said hypersonic weapons are “a game changer that we need,” but said one of the main lessons the Defense Department has “learned is on these high end…

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