Pentagon Goes Hypersonic With Long-Range Rapid Attack Weapon -- Washington Times
An experimental scramjet-powered, ultrahigh speed strike vehicle is emerging as the Pentagon’s main choice for a new long-range, rapid attack weapon, a senior Pentagon official says.
Alan R. Shaffer, principal deputy assistant defense secretary for research and engineering, told a defense industry conference that prototypes and recent tests proved concepts for hypersonic arms, and several systems are part of a high-priority effort by Pentagon weapons developers, despite the era of sharply-diminished defense spending.
Hypersonic vehicles can deliver nuclear or conventional payloads in precision strikes against increasingly hard-to-penetrate air defenses of countries like China, Russia and Iran, he said.
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My Comment: The big test for this technology will be in August .... Hypersonic Weapons Face Major Milestone In August Test -- Braking Defense
2 comments:
"Pentagon Goes Hypersonic"
Right, it's a proven concept, like the concept that I will play the mandolin at the Grand Old Opry this summer.
Ho hum.
Sorry, but this is no-news news. It's a BS counter to some "news" from China:
Mar 17, 2014
China's Hypersonic Glide Vehicle May Fly 10 Times Faster Than Sound
A developmental Chinese hypersonic vehicle could exceed the speed of sound 10 times over, the Taiwanese newspaper China Times reports.
Some background info on China's hypersonic program http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2014/01/the-us-is-now-in-hypersonic-arms-race.html
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