DARPA is playing both sides of the ball with both offensive and defensive hypersonics
HAWC and Glide Breaker are DARPA’s offensive and defensive hypersonic programs, respectively, and their program managers discuss what’s been done and what’s next.
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Air-breathing hypersonics: A new tactical capability to counter evolving threats
Because DARPA’s Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept doesn’t exit and re-enter the atmosphere like boost-glide hypersonics, it is less reliant on costly exotic materials for thermal management.
Modern Tech in Indo-Pacific Operations
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
US hypersonic missile successful in flight test, DARPA says
The US reportedly kept the test a secret for weeks for fear of spooking Moscow, following Russia's own hypersonic use.
DARPA Hypersonic Cruise Missile Prototype Flies At Last
The goals of the test were "vehicle integration and release sequence, safe separation from the launch aircraft, booster ignition and boost, booster separation and engine ignition, and cruise," DARPA said today, adding that the "primary test objectives were met."
Hypersonics: DoD Wants ‘Hundreds of Weapons’ ASAP
“We want to deliver hypersonics at scale,” said R&D director Mark Lewis, from air-breathing cruise missiles to rocket-boosted gliders that fly through space.
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.
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AI is transforming pilot training and the aircraft they fly
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Hypersonics: Lockheed Says Supply Chain Is ‘The Test’
The hard part is no longer the technology to fly at more than Mach 5: It's putting together all the parts to build hypersonic missiles in bulk.
DoD Boosts Hypersonics 136 % In 2019: DARPA
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will ramp up research on hypersonic weapons with a stunning 136 percent increase in the 2019 budget request. Here’s the breakdown of the $257 million: DARPA wanted more money, director Steven Walker said bluntly, particularly to build up an R&D infrastructure currently half the size of China’s. But, he said, this budget […]
3D Printing Key To Hypersonic Weapons: Raytheon
UPDATED with independent analysis from ICFI ARLINGTON: The race is on to build hypersonic weapons, missiles that blow through a target’s defenses at more than five times the speed of sound. Or should that be “the race to grow hypersonic weapons”? It turns out an unrelated cutting-edge technology, 3D printing, may be the key to making hypersonics work. […]