The US Navy and Army tested hypersonic weapon component prototypes on Wednesday said the Pentagon. The tests were conducted the same day US President Joe Biden said that he was concerned about Chinese hypersonic weapons.
The Sandia National Laboratory conducted the tests from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia which will help inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) offensive hypersonic strike,” a statement read.
However, later the Pentagon confirmed that its hypersonic weapons development test was unsuccessful after a missile booster failed to work.
“On October 21, the Department of Defense conducted a data collection experiment from the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, Kodiak, AK, to inform the department’s hypersonic technology development. The test did not occur as planned due to failure of the booster stack,” the spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday night.
