As hypersonic missile threats become more sophisticated, the importance of adequate testing grows, yet the Navy finds itself in a capability gap, according to the Pentagon chief weapons tester's annual report released last week . The Navy’s current supersonic aerial target, the GQM-163, cannot match the “evasive maneuver flight trajectories” of supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles that potential adversaries possess, nor can it match diving profiles, the report states. The GQM-163’s range is not large enough to demonstrate some of the...
