US Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) pic.twitter.com/ByvUCJFB1J— Caesar (@Ninja998998) May 31, 2019
Warzone/The Drive: Here's What The Army's First Ever Operational Hypersonic Missile Unit Will Look Like
The service plans to use the unit mostly for testing and evaluation, but it will be ready for combat within the next four years, if necessary.
The U.S. Army has laid out its plans for establishing its first ever unit armed with hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, as well as the transporter erector launchers, or TELs, that will carry the weapons. The service describes this unique artillery battery as primarily as an experimental organization that will help with the development of new concepts of operation around the employment of hypersonic weapons, but insists that it will also have a "residual" operational capability.
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Neil Thurgood, head of the service's recently rebranded Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO), announced the details of the new unit, which does not yet have a designation, at the Association of the U.S. Army's LANPAC conference in Hawaii in May 2019. Formerly known as the Army Rapid Capabilities Office, RCCTO is overseeing the service's contributions to the development of a common hypersonic boost-glide vehicle that will also eventually enter service as a submarine- and air-launched weapon with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, respectively.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: It will be deployed in 4 years.
No comments:
Post a Comment