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By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 01, 2021 at 1:26 PM A B-52 bomber carrying the ARRW. First, Michael White warned, future tests must not be marred by sloppy mistakes: “If [for example], we forgot how to do a checklist and tighten a pin on a fin, and we lose a flight vehicle because our fin falls off, that’s not acceptable failure. …. Quite frankly, we’ve got a ways to go. I’m not going to be satisfied with the health of the industrial base until we are routinely, successfully flying hypersonic weapons in our prototype development program. And so far we haven’t been able to...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 01, 2021 at 2:34 PM Launch of Army-Navy Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) in Hawaii on March 19, 2020. WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s director for hypersonics R&D and a range of defense experts are pushing back against a skeptical study of hypersonic weapons by arms control advocates at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The UCS gets something wrong at every step of their analysis, they say. The study, released days before President Biden’s inauguration and touted in The New York Times, argues that the investment for hypersonics is out of all pr...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 19, 2021 at 5:21 PM Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville (masked, in dark blue) reviews an honor guard during a July, 2020 visit to Singapore. WASHINGTON: With COVID budget cuts looming – especially for the ground force – the Army Chief of Staff is emphasizing his service’s role in the Pacific, traditionally thought of as a Navy and Air Force theater. Gen. James McConville, who became chief in August 2019, isn’t nearly as blunt as his predecessor Gen. Mark Milley, who went on to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and last month prophesi...