US admits failure of hypersonic missile test

The latest test of an American hypersonic air-launched missile has not been successful, said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. “We didn’t get the data we needed from the tests,” he admitted at a hearing in the US Senate Armed Services Committee. On March 25, the US Air Force reported that it had previously tested a prototype of the AGM-183A hypersonic missile. It is noted that the tests were the second launch of the prototype of this hypersonic missile. The launch was carried out by a B-52H Stratofortress bomber off the coast of the southern part of the US state of California. Prior to this, Paul Freistler, Chief Scientist of the Pentagon Intelligence Agency Analytical Department, said that China was ahead of Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons, and could also deploy weapons capable of hitting US military targets . The Chinese military announced in a statement today that it had discovered a US destroyer illegally entering the waters of the disputed Xisha Islands (Paracel Islands) in the South China Sea and urged it to leave the waters. The missile destroyer USS Millius is in question. The statement says that the American destroyer illegally entered the waters of this country without the permission of the Chinese government and endangered peace and stability in this crowded waterway. Chinese Liberation Army Tian Junli said, "The armed forces are at maximum alert and will take the necessary measures to maintain the territorial integrity, peace, stability and security in the waters of the South China Sea."