The U.S. Army and Navy tested several hypersonic weapon component prototypes that will determine the development of new weapons, the Department of Defense confirmed on Thursday, saying that three of the tests were deemed successful. The Pentagon, in a statement to Reuters, said the Sandia National Laboratory ran the tests from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The tests will help “inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) offensive hypersonic strike,” the statement continued. The tests “demonstrated advanced hypersonic technologies, capabilities, and prototype systems in a realistic operating environment,” the Pentagon also said. All three tests that were carried out were successful, the agency said. White House officials earlier this week had expressed concerns that China was testing a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide weapon, coming after the Financial Times, citing anonymous sources, reported that the regime tested a weapon in August that circled around …