Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten said on Wednesday that the U.S. has tested hypersonic missiles just nine times compared to China’s hundreds of tests, and lamented the United States’ heavily bureaucratic system as one of the factors that has delayed its progress.
“What you need to be worried about is that in the last five years, or maybe longer, the United States has done nine hypersonic missile tests, and in the same time the Chinese have done hundreds,” Hyten said at a Defense Writers Group event, as reported by Space News.
“Single digits vs hundreds is not a good place,” Hyten added, noting that China is “doing it the way we used to do it, and they move fast.”
