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Hypersonics at scale: What it takes in terms of tech, manufacturing, and talent

Hypersonics at scale: What it takes in terms of tech, manufacturing, and talent
Hypersonics at scale: What it takes in terms of tech, manufacturing, and talent

Providing air-breathing and boost-glide hypersonics propulsion requires a holistic approach to address each system’s unique needs for speed.

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested
Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested

You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems,” said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.

Navy Successfully Tests Solid Rocket Motor For Hypersonic Weapon

Navy Successfully Tests Solid Rocket Motor For Hypersonic Weapon
Navy Successfully Tests Solid Rocket Motor For Hypersonic Weapon

The test is a “critical milestone” on the way to fielding a common hypersonic missile used by the Navy and Army.

‘Confident’ Of 2023 Fielding Goal, Army Dubs Hypersonic Weapon ‘Dark Eagle’

‘Confident’ Of 2023 Fielding Goal, Army Dubs Hypersonic Weapon ‘Dark Eagle’
‘Confident’ Of 2023 Fielding Goal, Army Dubs Hypersonic Weapon ‘Dark Eagle’

Training with the first Long Range Hypersonic Weapon prototype system will commence on Oct. 18, says Rob Strider, deputy director of the Army Hypersonic Project Office.

Hypersonics: 5 More Army-Navy Flight Tests By 2023

Hypersonics: 5 More Army-Navy Flight Tests By 2023
Hypersonics: 5 More Army-Navy Flight Tests By 2023

The first four flight tests – one a failure — took nine years. The next five will take less than three years.

EXCLUSIVE DoD Seeks $2.9B For Hypersonics In 2021

EXCLUSIVE DoD Seeks $2.9B For Hypersonics In 2021
EXCLUSIVE DoD Seeks $2.9B For Hypersonics In 2021

While Army and Navy spending nearly double, Air Force and independent agency spending drops almost 40 percent.

Navy Targets Sub-Launched Hypersonic Test By Mid 2020s

Navy Targets Sub-Launched Hypersonic Test By Mid 2020s
Navy Targets Sub-Launched Hypersonic Test By Mid 2020s

For the rest of this year, the Navy is doubling down on its boosters, conducting a series of static fire tests to collect data before another test firing. “We’ve been crawling, now we’re starting to walk where we’re going to get the booster design done — we’re going to static test this year — and then we will start to truly, truly run,” Wolfe said.

Hypersonics: Army, Navy Test Common Glide Body

Hypersonics: Army, Navy Test Common Glide Body
Hypersonics: Army, Navy Test Common Glide Body

The two services will use the same rocket booster and glide body, just packaged differently to fire from trucks vs. ships, with the Army version entering service in 2023.

Army Ramps Up Funding For Laser Shield, Hypersonic Sword

Army Ramps Up Funding For Laser Shield, Hypersonic Sword
Army Ramps Up Funding For Laser Shield, Hypersonic Sword

Research and development spending on hypersonics will nearly double in ‘21, and it will triple for lasers, as the service rushes to deploy combat-ready prototypes.

Hypersonics Pitch Day: Air Force Woos Startups

Hypersonics Pitch Day: Air Force Woos Startups
Hypersonics Pitch Day: Air Force Woos Startups

The nine startups are pitching everything from composite materials to small propulsion units that can enable hypersonic (i.e. faster than Mach 5) flight.

Hypersonics: Army Awards $699M To Build First Missiles For A Combat Unit

Hypersonics: Army Awards $699M To Build First Missiles For A Combat Unit
Hypersonics: Army Awards $699M To Build First Missiles For A Combat Unit

Dynetics will build the Common Glide Body for both the Army and Navy, which Lockheed will integrate into full-up weapons for the first Army battery by 2023.

Hypersonics: From Zero To 40 Plus Flights In Next Four Years

Hypersonics: From Zero To 40 Plus Flights In Next Four Years
Hypersonics: From Zero To 40 Plus Flights In Next Four Years

As Mark Lewis, an expert on hypersonics at the Institute for Defense Analyses, said here at the NDIA conference: “You can’t walk more than 10 feet in the Pentagon without hearing the word hypersonics.”

Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances

Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances
Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances

To take out Russian and Chinese targets from a thousand miles away, the US Army wants two very different weapons: a hypersonic missile and a giant cannon.

Army Building 1,000-Mile Supergun

Army Building 1,000-Mile Supergun
Army Building 1,000-Mile Supergun

While the Strategic Long-Range Cannon will hit targets at ranges comparable to bleeding-edge hypersonics missiles, Army officials emphasized the cannon is built on proven principles, just bigger.