An Air Force advisory panel commissioned to explore options for defending against hypersonic, maneuvering weapons, such as those China and Russia are flight testing, concluded no "silver bullets" are at hand -- or in the development pipeline -- to defeat this new class of threats, arguing the best defense may be a new offense: the U.S. military's own credible, hypersonic weapon. An unclassified executive summary of the National Academies of Sciences' Committee on Future Air Force Needs for Defense Against...
