The Air Force expects to start test-flying the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile starting this fall, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Tests will iterate the design and continue until 2027, at which point HACM will transition to a major defense program ...
A flight test of an AGM-183A hypersonic missile over the central Pacific Ocean is expected at any moment, based on navigational warnings and movements of tracking aircraft to the Kwajalein Atoll area. The test may be the last for the ARRW, which the Air Force ...
Three more “all-up” flight tests of the AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) must succeed before the Air Force decides whether to press on into production for the hypersonic missile, the service has told Air & Space Forces Magazine. Lockheed Martin will also have to ...
A recent test flight of the Lockheed Martin HAWC air-breathing hypersonic missile set a record for scramjet propulsion at hypersonic speeds, achieving about 327 seconds of combustion, versus 200 seconds in a 2010 test of the Boeing X-51 Waverider.
The Army and Navy jointly conducted a test of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body on March 19 over the Pacific Ocean. The test clears the way for design of an operational system to be ready by 2023. The Missile Defense Agency used the test to ...