The USA announced that the country’s air force has successfully launched a new supersonic rocket of Lockheed Martin with the test taking place off its coast California.
According to the Reuters agency, the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) missile was successfully launched from an aircraft, while mit can travel in the upper layers of the atmosphere at a speed of 6,200 km/habout five times that of the sound.
In fact, in a separate successful test of a hypersonic weapon that took place recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) demonstrated “Operational Fires” or OpFires: a missile launch system that engages targets with high speed and precision, penetrating enemy air defenses. DARPA has secured $45 million for OpFires from the 2022 budget.
Lockheed Martin aspires a modification of the HIMARS multiple launch system to be capable of launching DARPA’s hypersonic weapon. It is recalled that American HIMARS were recently received by the Ukrainian armed forces.
The successful tests followed the failed test launch of a different type of hypersonic missile, the C-HGB (Common Hypersonic Glide Body) on June 29 in Hawaii.
Defense industries aspire to cash in on the new superpower arms race and shift to hypersonic weapons, not only by building them but also by developing new detection and neutralization mechanisms.
Source: News Beast
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