{"id":132379,"date":"2021-12-13T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/darpa-opfires-can-provide-the-usmc-with-mobile-hypersonic-missiles"},"modified":"2021-12-13T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:23:30","slug":"darpa-opfires-can-provide-the-usmc-with-mobile-hypersonic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/darpa-opfires-can-provide-the-usmc-with-mobile-hypersonic-missiles","title":{"rendered":"DARPA OpFires Can Provide the USMC with Mobile Hypersonic Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-opfires-can-provide-the-usmc-with-mobile-hypersonic-missiles3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in collaboration with Lockheed Martin are developing the OpFires mobile medium-range hypersonic missile assembly to fit on the back of an U.S. Army\u2019s Palletized Load System (PLS) 5-axle 10\u00d710 truck. OpFires will provide the U.S. Army with a highly mobile vehicle for firing hypersonic missiles that is independent of the tractor and trailer combination for the longer-range (strategic) hypersonic missiles. The U.S. Marines may also be interested in OpFires as they use the similar Logistic Vehicle Replacement System (LVSR) 10\u00d710 truck.<\/p>\n<p>The OpFires Project will use throttleable rocket motors on hypersonic missiles to achieve varying ranges in flight; therefore, OpFires can hit targets within the range envelope up to 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers). At Mach 5+, the OpFires\u2019 warhead can fly 1,000 miles in approximately 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in collaboration with Lockheed Martin are developing the OpFires mobile medium-range hypersonic missile assembly to fit on the back of an U.S. Army\u2019s Palletized Load System (PLS) 5-axle 10\u00d710 truck. OpFires will provide the U.S. Army with a highly mobile vehicle for firing hypersonic missiles that is independent [\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-132379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132379","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=132379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}