{"id":102174,"date":"2020-02-10T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/us-air-force-scraps-major-hypersonic-weapon-program-amid-budget-squeeze"},"modified":"2020-02-10T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:22:57","slug":"us-air-force-scraps-major-hypersonic-weapon-program-amid-budget-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/us-air-force-scraps-major-hypersonic-weapon-program-amid-budget-squeeze","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Scraps Major Hypersonic Weapon Program Amid Budget Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-air-force-scraps-major-hypersonic-weapon-program-amid-budget-squeeze.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) program has been killed by the US Air Force as the service looks to make budget cuts in the area of hypersonic prototyping in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek revealed Monday that budget pressure, rather than performance, influenced the service\u2019s decision to abandon its HCSW program and continue its development of the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) \u2014 its other hypersonic weapon program.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>\u201cWe will continue to work collaboratively with our sister services to see how we can most effectively leverage each other\u2019s capabilities, ensuring the most prudent use of taxpayer dollars,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2020\/02\/10\/the-air-force-just-canceled-one-of-its-hypersonic-weapons-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she said in a statement emailed to Defense News on February 10<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) program has been killed by the US Air Force as the service looks to make budget cuts in the area of hypersonic prototyping in the coming year. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek revealed Monday that budget pressure, rather than performance, influenced the service\u2019s decision to abandon its HCSW program [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}