Welcome to the jungle - US super/hypersonic programs

a reply to: Zaphod58
You are right

www.thedrive.com...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Redondo Beach, California, has been awarded a $13,006,683 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the base period of the Glide Breaker program. This contract provides for the research, development and demonstration of a technology that is critical for enabling an advanced interceptor capable of engaging maneuvering hypersonic threats in the upper atmosphere. Work will be performed in Redondo Beach, California (73%); Mesa, Arizona (21%); Sacramento, California (4%); and Huntsville, Alabama (2%), with an estimated completion date of January 2021. Fiscal 2019 research and development funds in the amount of $13,006,683 are being obligated at the time of award. This contract is a competitive acquisition in accordance with the original broad agency announcement, HR0011-19-S-0008. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR001120C0025).

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Love this video, just to get an idea of how fast speed we are talking here...

Sled was allegedly moving at Match 8.9, really try and spot it if you can!

a reply to: Masisoar

Redondo Beach is the old TRW locale. Specifically, where they make their pewpews, as the locals here like to call them.

a reply to: anzha

Yes sir

aviationweek.com...

By contrast, the axisymmetric shape of the lower lift-over-drag glider developed for the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB)—the front-end designed for the Air Force Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon, the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) and the Navy’s Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS)—has logged several successful flight tests since the late 1970s. The winged TBG’s greater maneuverability, albeit with shorter range, makes it far more challenging to design.

a reply to: anzha
The reusability disappear in the futur hypersonic weapon system , but an air launched hypersonic drone could be a game changer no? a sort of new X-15 launched by a B-52 for ISR and strike, abble to return to a near base.

a reply to: anzha

C-HGB is a descendant of SWERVE - Sandia Winged Energized Reentry Vehicle.

a reply to: darksidius

You mean like the WZ-8 (sorta) is?

a reply to: anzha
Yes some kind

HCSW is dead.

a reply to: anzha

www.airforcemag.com...

I bet they start it again from scratch within five years.

a reply to: mightmight

No bet. lol.

X-60A first flight delayed:

www.janes.com...

www.flightglobal.com...

ARRW passes CDR.

Why the USAF picked the ARRW over HCSW:

www.flightglobal.com...

The MDA is working on a Regional Phase Weapon System (RGPWS), an Aegis based Counter Hypersonic weapon: aviationweek.com...

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a reply to: anzha


i want to see the navys new missiles for our subs

i know there is some interesting things in the works

originally posted by: penroc3
a reply to: anzha


i want to see the navys new missiles for our subs

i know there is some interesting things in the works

Maybe this is one of them:mro-network.com... s-hypersonic-combined-cycle-engine-concept-tests+&cd=2&hl=es&ct=clnk&gl=es&client=safari" target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">webcache.googleusercontent.com...:tTLuk4fC7uMJ:mro-network.com... s-hypersonic-combined-cycle-engine-concept-tests+&cd=2&hl=es&ct=clnk&gl=es&client=safari

Sorry, it´s behind a paywall, but we have known some details of this tech for a while, it seems they are disclosing now. I used the link from google caché but it´s not working here.Anyone can try the original link:aviationweek.com...