A hearing on the Biden administration’s proposed defense budget turned rancorous on April 5, with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin verbally sparring over the state of America’s hypersonic weapons capabilities.
Gaetz said that the hypersonic capabilities of the U.S. military had fallen behind those of the Chinese military, and cited Chinese advancements in hypersonic weapons technologies such as its test of an orbital bombardment system last July.
