Thursday, April 7, 2022

U.S. Air Force Delays Hypersonic Missile Program After Disappointing Flight Test

A B-52H Stratofortress takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California to conduct a hypersonic missile test on Aug. 8, 2020. (Photo: DVIDS/Air Force photo by Matt Williams)  

CNN: Air Force delays hypersonic missile program after flight test ‘anomalies’ 

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 the Air Force. 

The AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was supposed to reach early operational capability, an important milestone in weapon testing and development, before October. 

But following a series of failures in flight tests last year, the Air Force postponed the first test of the complete missile and booster to sometime in the next fiscal year, which begins in October. 

More tests will follow later in the year, the Air Force said. “The ARRW production decision remains event-driven and will occur after operational utility is demonstrated through successful system end-to-end flight tests,” the Air Force said.  

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Update: Hypersonic-Missile Delay Puts U.S. Further Behind Russia and China (Bloomberg)  

WNU Editor: This is a major set-back.

6 comments:

Caecus said...

why do they publish this information?

Anonymous said...

Especially after they already told their pawns in the media that the reason they didn't publish the results of last month's test was to "not provoke russia".

Anonymous said...

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Legally, peacefully.

Anonymous said...

The scramjet hypersonic is the game changing technology. The US mastered it by 2012, then shelved work on it after a couple successful test flights. That technology is far more difficult than the hypersonic work Russia and China have fielded.

Jac said...

Speed is critical, yes, but is not 100% of the problem. As any weapon the difficulties are on the requirements which are not necessarily the same with the Russian and the Chinese one. This is making hard to make any kind of comparison with our opponents.

Adam said...

Man wtf. Get this $hit finished and up to initial operational testing phase at Least. It's sickening these mighty defense contractors that are not patriotic, they rob us blind, can't do this yet. Just my opinion as always.