First artist’s concept for Glide Breaker, a Darpa-funded technology to defeat hypersonic weapons, revealed at #darpa60. More coverage to follow in @AviationWeek. pic.twitter.com/Ep6HmBVHzu— Steve Trimble (@TheDEWLine) September 6, 2018
Warzone/The Drive: DARPA Starts Work On "Glide Breaker" Hypersonic Weapons Defense Project
The program's main goal is to find ways to make America's enemies think twice before using hypersonic weapons.
As the threat of hypersonic weapons continues to grow, one of the Pentagon’s top research and development arm is moving ahead with a new project to explore ways to guard against them. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Glide Breaker project will look into various “component technologies” needed for one or more defense systems, but will focus heavily on a hard-kill interceptor to knock the fast-flying weapons out of the sky.
DARPA showed off concept art of the interceptor portion of Glide Breaker for the first time at its D60 Symposium, which honors the organization’s 60th anniversary, in September 2018. The agency’s Tactical Technology Office had previously hosted a gathering to explain the project and its requirements to interested parties in July 2018.
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WNU Editor: These weapon systems travel at incredible speeds but not at a ballistic trajectory. I will definitely be impress if they can do it.
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