{"id":112488,"date":"2020-09-04T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/darpa-completes-key-milestone-on-hypersonics-air-breathing-weapons-program"},"modified":"2020-09-04T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:22:39","slug":"darpa-completes-key-milestone-on-hypersonics-air-breathing-weapons-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/darpa-completes-key-milestone-on-hypersonics-air-breathing-weapons-program","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Completes Key Milestone on Hypersonics Air-breathing Weapons Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-completes-key-milestone-on-hypersonics-air-breathing-weapons-program.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense advanced research projects agency \u2014 DARPA.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DARPA and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) today announced successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept\">Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC)<\/a> and are ready to proceed to first free-flight testing within the calendar year. The joint Agency and Service effort seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile.<\/p>\n<p>HAWC performers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies have each tested advanced air vehicle configurations that promise to achieve and sustain efficient hypersonic flight. Their upcoming flight tests will focus on hydrocarbon scramjet-powered propulsion and thermal management techniques to enable prolonged hypersonic cruise, in addition to affordable system designs and manufacturing approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompleting the captive carry series of tests demonstrates both HAWC designs are ready for free flight,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/staff\/mr-andrew-knoedler\">Andrew \u201cTippy\u201d Knoedler<\/a>, HAWC program manager in DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office. \u201cThese tests provide us a large measure of confidence \u2013 already well informed by years of simulation and wind tunnel work \u2013 that gives us faith the unique design path we embarked on will provide unmatched capability to U.S. forces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense advanced research projects agency \u2014 DARPA. DARPA and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) today announced successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and are ready to proceed to first free-flight testing within the calendar year. The joint Agency and Service effort seeks to develop and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112488","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}