Pentagon wants a hypersonic cruise missile for jets, ships and bombers
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Pentagon wants a hypersonic cruise missile for jets, ships and bombers
The Pentagon’s research agency DARPA is asking industry how to build a new hypersonic cruise missile that would fly much farther, faster or higher than current designs and could still be produced cheaply in large numbers. DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office posted a request for information for the Next Generation Hypersonic Cruise Missile on Sept. 30 […]
Hypersonic weapons have long ceased to be experimental technology, but now the US is taking the next step of trying to turn them into mass weapons. In September, the U.S. Air Force announced a search for the concepts of an inexpensive 925-km hypersonic missile with a range that could be purchased in large quantities, while China is already using the DF-17 hypersonic planetarium.
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