US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrives to attend a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Wednesday, February 2.
(CNN)Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin encouraged CEOs from more than two dozen of America's largest defense companies to accelerate hypersonic weapons development during a high-level meeting Thursday.
"This is absolutely serious," Austin said, referring to the threat posed by Chinese and Russian hypersonic programs, according to a CEO who participated in the virtual meeting. "We are distracted now by Russia, but China is the real threat."
During the meeting, multiple CEOs described the need for more wind tunnels to test hypersonic vehicles as a "choke point in testing." The US only has a handful of hypersonic wind tunnels, according to one CEO, while China has about 12 and "they're building about one every six months."
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Update #1: Private Pentagon Report Shows Hurdles to Hypersonic Weapons (Bloomberg)
Update #2: Readout of Round Table Meeting with Hypersonics Industry Executives (US Department Of Defense)
WNU Editor: Money appears to be a major issue .... Budget uncertainty ‘throttles’ MDA’s development of a hypersonic missile interceptor (Defense News).
9 comments:
Chief military corp lobbyist says jump, mil industrial complex asks how high.
You launch an aircraft or space craft, you collect telemetry data and stuff. You analyze it after a test. If a platform is going supersonic and cracks up maybe you do not get the data you need. With a bachelor of science degree Lloyd cannot ask the right questions.
Is the problem with certain groups of engineers here and there? Their managers?
Or are companies holding out for more money?
Accelerate usually means more money. Or a technocratic death march like the one for the Pentium.
If the problem is with people is it because of bean counting? I could be all wrong, but you could replace some of those managers with science writers and get better results.
I was a little underwhelmed with Master of Arts degree in counselor education. Just how pervasive is it?
Russ, a sand delivery just showed up at your bunker.
Go back to pounding off.
6:16 got up this morning pounded off and got in the internet. Busy boy.
So 9:28 admits that he pounds off. Must be all those pictures he looks at.
There you go projecting again.
And you make a perfect screen!
Keep it behind closed doors guy. We do not want to be splattered by your shit.
Aw come on, wasn't a problem for you was it?
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