Did NYT/Deep State try to tip them off? This appeared today in the NYT opinion section.

Moreover hypersonics are a weaponized moral hazard for states with a taste for intervention, because they erase barriers to picking fights. ... Is there an individual in an unfriendly country who cannot be apprehended? What if the former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, visits Baghdad for a meeting and you know the address? The temptations to use hypersonic missiles will be many.