DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile

DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile
DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile

With ground tests this year and a full-up flight test in 2023, OpFires hopes to become the Army’s long-term solution for its Mid-Range Capability missile.

It’s ‘War’ Twixt Appropriators & Authorizers Over RD-180s: Sen. Durbin

It’s ‘War’ Twixt Appropriators & Authorizers Over RD-180s: Sen. Durbin
It’s ‘War’ Twixt Appropriators & Authorizers Over RD-180s: Sen. Durbin

CAPITOL HILL: The Senate battle over Russian rockets keeps rocking. Senators Dick Durbin and Richard Shelby sent most of this morning’s defense appropriations hearing defending the Pentagon’s plan to keep using the cheap and technologically reliable but politically toxic RD-180 until an American-made replacement is ready, sometime around 2020-2021. Durbin and Shelby denounced the effort…