Warzone/The Drive: Air Force Bails On Tri-Service Hypersonic Weapon Project As Army, Navy Ask For More Money
The Air Force will focus on a different hypersonic weapon, using a more complex boost-glide vehicle for its warhead, for its B-52 bombers.
The U.S. Air Force is looking to stop work on an air-launched missile that uses common unpowered hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, which remains under development for the U.S. Army and Navy. Both of those services are pushing ahead with plans to use that vehicle as the warhead on new ground and sea-launched weapons, respectively. The Navy wants to nearly double funding for its portion of the program in the next fiscal year.
The Air Force first announced its desire to end the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon, or HCSW, which is pronounced "hacksaw," on Feb. 10, 2010, as part of the rollout of the Pentagon's proposed budget for the 2021 Fiscal Year. Lockheed Martin won the contract, which had an estimated value of up to $928 million, to develop HCSW in 2018. The Air Force had received more than $571 million, in total, for work on this hypersonic missile in the Fiscal Year 2019 and 2020 budgets. It's important to note that Congress still has to approve the new plan to cancel HCSW.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 11, 2020
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