On February 9, Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Tate Nurkin wrote in Breaking Defense that in order to succeed in hypersonics, the United States must also tolerate a certain level of failure. In his article, “To catch China and Russia in hypersonic race, US must embrace risk now,” Nurkin advocates for the Department of Defense (DoD) to take a more fast-paced, setback-tolerant approach to hypersonic development.
Achieving DoD’s admittedly ambitious objectives for testing and fielding defenses against hypersonic weapons… mean[s]… not being deterred from achieving long-term success by episodic short-term setbacks.
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