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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have wrapped up captive carry tests of two hypersonic weapon variants that will perform their first free-flight ...
The Air Force described the failures as “anomalies.” The US military conducted a successful test launch of a rocket with components for hypersonic weapons development at the Wallops Flight ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a second contract to develop a new hypersonic weapon that would move five times the speed of sound. The service on Monday awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a contract ...
This past May, the Air Force successfully tested the Lockheed Martin-developed ARRW hypersonic missile off the California coast, a major development in the United States' race to catch up to ...
The Air Force delayed its hypersonic missile program by up to a year after “recent flight test anomalies” pushed back the schedule for the weapon’s completion, according to a statement from ...
WASHINGTON — The Air Force has cancelled the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon program, one of the two major hypersonic weapons being spearheaded by the service.. While the development is a ...
Air Force officials said the first step on the road to deploying its AGM-183A hypersonic system — validating the loading and unloading process — was cleared recently at Barksdale Air Force ...
An Air Force B-52H Stratofortress released the first fully operational AGM ... The development of hypersonic weapons — which travel at speeds multiple times the speed of sound and are ...
EGLIN AFB — The 780th Test Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base has successfully detonated a hypersonic weapon warhead, according to a brief Wednesday news release from the 96th Test Wing, host unit ...
Rather than developing a highly complex, expensive air-breathing scramjet engine as used on NASA’s X-43 and the Air Force’s X-51 experimental hypersonic drones, Hermeus is using a simpler ...
For now, the Air Force is focusing on hypersonic missiles, ... The defense agency estimates that the first part of the development of the hypersonic vehicles could cost upwards of $60 million.
Hypersonic attack drones traveling at five times the speed of sound, new stealthy drones engineered for strike missions deep into heavily defended enemy territory and drones operated from the ...