Global Research: 21-08-2024,
In about a week, it’ll be a full month since the latest hypersonic test by the US military and we’re yet to see any reports about the results. Immediately after the test, there was either silence or pointless bureaucratic mumbo jumbo about the US military learning “valuable lessons” during testing. At the time, a US defense official told The War Zone that “this test was an essential benchmark in the development of operational hypersonic technology” and that “vital data on the performance of the hardware and software was collected that will inform the continued progress toward fielding hypersonic weapons”. In other words, the chances that the launch was successful are quite slim. Considering the long history of American failures in this field, there’s strong empirical evidence that casts serious doubt on the “success” of last month’s test and that’s precisely what I argued in my previous analysis about the launch and the general state of US hypersonic weapons programs.
The latest reports only reinforce this notion. Namely, Under Secretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo informed the media that the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), a joint venture with the US Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), was supposedly “scheduled for fielding”. According to Janes, at the Emerging Technologies Institute conference of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) on August 8, Camarillo said that “we look forward to its eventual fielding”,