A Defense Department assessment of ballistic and cruise missile threats to the United States has, for the first time, identified hypersonic glide vehicles -- being developed by Russia and China to penetrate U.S. ballistic missile defenses -- as an "emerging threat." The report, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Ballistic Missile Analysis Committee in collaboration with the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, notes that hypersonic glide vehicles are being developed as a...
