In mid-October, the US Department of Defence announced that they had designated the Naval Surface Warfare Centre (NSWC) in Indiana as the primary base for developing hypersonic weapons. It appears that the Pentagon is involved in the development of advanced weapons to prevent hypersonic missile attacks from "near-space", Kris Osborn, managing editor of the website Warrior Maven and defence editor of the magazine National Interest, suggested.
In an article for Fox News, he referred to hypersonic glide vehicles' capability to skim "along the upper boundaries of the Earth's atmosphere" so as to use "trajectory and a speed of descent" for eliminating targets "with unprecedented force".
Tackling such attacks is still an issue, Osborn stressed, citing Principal Pentagon Director for Hypersonics Michael White as saying during a recent news briefing that US air defence systems and missile interceptors are designed to operate "on either side of that near-space operating zone"....MORE
