Hypersonics too expensive, industrial base too small for services to go it alone: Admiral

[rangerrebew]

Hypersonics too expensive, industrial base too small for services to go it alone: Admiral

A recent test of the joint Navy-Army system that the Navy calls Conventional Prompt Strike suffered a partial failure in a June test, but that's because Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe said the service "pushed the envelope... learned a lot."
By   JUSTIN KATZ
on November 03, 2022 at 11:55 AM


WASHINGTON — The cost of developing hypersonic weapons combined with the relatively small industrial base means it isn’t viable for the Navy to go it alone on developing the much-sought-after capabilities, a senior officer argued Tuesday.

Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director of the service’s strategic systems program office, told attendees here at the Naval Submarine League one of the lessons learned from the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike program, a hypersonic weapon being developed jointly with the Army, is that such high-end weapons are too costly for one service to take the full brunt of the price.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/11/hypersonics-too-expensive-industrial-base-too-small-for-services-to-go-it-alone-admiral/

[rangerrebew]

We have millions more illegal immigrants than we need so why not deport a few million and give the revenue that would be spent on them to the military?  

[The_Reader_David]

Of course, there's the question as to which is more effective at getting through enemy air defenses:  one hypersonic missile at $100 million a pop, or 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles at $2 million each, or even 20 Tomahawk cruise missile at $2 million each?