Richard Shelby: “But that is an untapped source we have, I believe, in America.”

Russia's launched multiple hypersonic weapons as part of their invasion of the Ukraine and China is continuing to develop its own hypersonic weapons.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.

A lot of people, including this Senator, believe that the request is not enough considering the problems in the world.