{"id":132674,"date":"2021-12-18T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/third-test-of-the-air-forces-hypersonic-weapon-has-failed-like-the-ones-before-it"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T06:22:41","slug":"third-test-of-the-air-forces-hypersonic-weapon-has-failed-like-the-ones-before-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/third-test-of-the-air-forces-hypersonic-weapon-has-failed-like-the-ones-before-it","title":{"rendered":"Third Test Of The Air Force\u2019s Hypersonic Weapon Has Failed Like The Ones Before It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/third-test-of-the-air-forces-hypersonic-weapon-has-failed-like-the-ones-before-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force has failed for a third time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/41761\/air-forces-fails-in-second-attempt-to-conduct-a-test-flight-of-its-first-hypersonic-missile\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conduct a successful<\/a> test of the rocket booster on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/40064\/broken-arrw-air-forces-first-hypersonic-missile-fails-during-ina\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a prototype<\/a> AGM-183A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/37045\/air-force-says-new-hypersonic-missile-will-hit-targets-1000-miles-away-in-under-12-minutes\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon<\/a> hypersonic missile, or ARRW. This can only add to the palatable frustration within the service, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. military and in Congress, about the progress, or lack thereof, in the testing of various new hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force Life Cycle Management Command\u2019s Armament Directorate confirmed to <em>The War Zone<\/em> today that another attempted ARRW flight test had failed on Dec. 15, 2021. The Air Force says that it has not yet determined the cause of the issue that led to the test being aborted. The prototype missile never left the wing of the B-52H bomber carrying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force has failed for a third time to conduct a successful test of the rocket booster on a prototype AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile, or ARRW. This can only add to the palatable frustration within the service, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. military and in Congress, about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132674","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=132674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}