After more than a decade of collaboration, the U.S. and Australia are now gaining ground in perfecting a new hypersonic cruise missile that will be launched from a fighter aircraft.
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Aiming to build a usable system throughout the experimental and prototyping phase of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program led to Raytheon and Northrop Grumman’s win of the program, company officials told reporters. The partners have already invested in production capacity in 14 states, they ...
The ultimate goal was to take off from Earth, fly a mission through space, reenter the atmosphere, and land on a runway.
The Army’s initiative to generate long-range fires frays when stacked against conventional air and naval options.
The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) missile failed to fly in a planned test launch, due to mechanical errors, not the missile design, sources reported. The problem follows captive-carry test flight issues during the spring and summer, which led to a HAWC prototype being damaged. ...
