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High Cost of Hypersonic Missiles Likely Means Low Inventories in Near Term, Air Force Secretary Says

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022

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High Cost of Hypersonic Missiles Likely Means Low Inventories in Near Term, Air Force Secretary Says

Airmen prepare an AGM-183A for a captive carry test on a B-52H bomber in August, 2020 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The high costs of hypersonic missiles that may entail a unit cost in the tens of millions of dollars will likely mean that the United States will not field high numbers of them in the near term, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Feb. 15. "The Chinese continue to invest on their side so I don't think there's any question we're gonna want to keep moving the technology forward," he told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies forum.…

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