{"id":106646,"date":"2020-05-06T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/navy-confirms-global-strike-hypersonic-weapon-will-first-deploy-on-virginia-attack-subs"},"modified":"2020-05-06T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:44:04","slug":"navy-confirms-global-strike-hypersonic-weapon-will-first-deploy-on-virginia-attack-subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/navy-confirms-global-strike-hypersonic-weapon-will-first-deploy-on-virginia-attack-subs","title":{"rendered":"Navy Confirms Global Strike Hypersonic Weapon Will First Deploy on Virginia Attack Subs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navy-confirms-global-strike-hypersonic-weapon-will-first-deploy-on-virginia-attack-subs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy intends to deploy its conventional prompt strike hypersonic weapon on Virginia-class attack submarines, after previous discussions of putting the weapon on the larger Ohio-class guided-missile submarine (SSGN), according to budget request documents.<\/p>\n<p>In its Fiscal Year 2021 budget overview, the Navy outlines a research and development portfolio with 5 percent more funding than this current year \u2013 for a total of $21.5 billion \u2013 that is aimed at \u201cproviding innovative capabilities in shipbuilding (Columbia class), aviation (F-35), weapons (Maritime Strike Tomahawk), hypersonics (Conventional Prompt Strike), unmanned, family of lasers, digital warfare, applied [artificial intelligence], and [U.S. Marine Corps] expeditionary equipment. These technologies are crucial to maintaining DON\u2019s competitive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the Conventional Prompt Strike, the Navy wants to invest $1 billion for research and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy intends to deploy its conventional prompt strike hypersonic weapon on Virginia-class attack submarines, after previous discussions of putting the weapon on the larger Ohio-class guided-missile submarine (SSGN), according to budget request documents. In its Fiscal Year 2021 budget overview, the Navy outlines a research and development portfolio with 5 percent more funding than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106646","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}