
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.…