“Game-Changer”: Air Force Effectively Tests Hypersonic Weapon
Harold Hutchison on May 17, 2022
The U. S. Air Force The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has announced the successful testing of a hypersonic missile that can reach more than five times the speed of sound, according to a press release issued Monday.
A Boeing B-52H Stratofortress on Saturday unveiled the AGM-183 AGM-183A air-launch immediate reaction weapon off the coast of California, news outlets said. The missile is designed to hit remote targets in what the Air Force calls “contested environments. “” or heavily defended areas.
“This is a major achievement of the ARRW team, for the arms company and our Air Force,” Brig said. General Heath A. Collins said.
– Lockheed Martin News (@lmnews) May 17, 2022
China and Russia also have hypersonic weapons progression programs. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the U. S. , he described a Chinese man last October as a “Sputnik moment. “
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry, claimed that Russian forces used hypersonic missiles to destroy a Ukrainian ammunition warehouse in the invasion of Ukraine in March, according to the New York Times.
“Our highly professional team made history with this first air-launched hypersonic weapon,” said Lt. Col. Michael Jungquist, commander of the 419th Flight Test Squadron. “We are doing everything we can to supply this revolutionary weapon to the fighter as soon as possible. “possible. “
The missile is expected to succeed in early operational capability in September, according to Air Force Technology, an army aerospace news site. An ARRW has the ability to hit targets of up to 1,000 miles in as little as ten minutes, according to a 2020 report by Air Force Magazine.
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