Pentagon Holding Back on Hypersonic Weapons' Risks, GAO Says

The Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., shown in 2011.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon isn’t giving Congress and the public a full assessment of its difficulties and challenges developing hypersonic weapons to counter those already deployed by China and Russia, according to congressional auditors. Despite test failures with Air Force and Army systems that were supposed to become operational already, the Pentagon “is not comprehensively […]