{"id":137730,"date":"2022-04-05T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/second-successful-flight-for-darpa-hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept-hawc"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:22:49","slug":"second-successful-flight-for-darpa-hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept-hawc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/second-successful-flight-for-darpa-hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept-hawc","title":{"rendered":"Second Successful Flight for DARPA Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/second-successful-flight-for-darpa-hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept-hawc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA and its U.S. Air Force partner recently completed a free flight test of the Lockheed Martin version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/hypersonic-air-breathing-weapon-concept\">Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC)<\/a>. The vehicle, after release from a carrier aircraft, was boosted to its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet engine ignition envelope. From there, it quickly accelerated to and maintained cruise faster than Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) for an extended period of time. The vehicle reached altitudes greater than 65,000 feet and flew for more than 300 nautical miles.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second successful flight in DARPA\u2019s HAWC program. Last September, a different vehicle configuration from another contractor team also reached hypersonic flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Lockheed Martin HAWC flight test successfully demonstrated a second design that will allow our warfighters to competitively select the right capabilities to dominate the battlefield,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/staff\/mr-andrew-knoedler\">Andrew \u201cTippy\u201d Knoedler<\/a>, HAWC program manager in DARPA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/about-us\/offices\/tto\">Tactical Technology Office<\/a>. \u201cThese achievements increase the level of technical maturity for transitioning HAWC to a service program of record.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA and its U.S. Air Force partner recently completed a free flight test of the Lockheed Martin version of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). The vehicle, after release from a carrier aircraft, was boosted to its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet engine ignition envelope. From there, it quickly accelerated to and maintained cruise faster than Mach [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137730","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}