{"id":29222,"date":"2016-08-22T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/us-outspending-china-and-russia-in-hypersonic-weapons-research"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:22:09","slug":"us-outspending-china-and-russia-in-hypersonic-weapons-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/us-outspending-china-and-russia-in-hypersonic-weapons-research","title":{"rendered":"US Outspending China and Russia in Hypersonic Weapons Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-outspending-china-and-russia-in-hypersonic-weapons-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among others, the Pentagon is funding the Lockheed Martin Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) program; the Raytheon Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and the Raytheon\/Lockheed Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program.<\/p>\n<p>HTV-2 is a multiyear research and development effort to increase the technical knowledge base and advance critical technologies to make long-duration hypersonic flight a reality. The Falcon HTV-2 is an unmanned, rocket-launched, maneuverable aircraft that glides through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere at Mach 20.<\/p>\n<p>HAWC is a joint DARPA\/ Air Force effort to develop and demonstrate critical technologies that enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile. It will pursue flight demonstrations to address three critical technology challenges: air vehicle feasibility, effectiveness, and affordability.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/98936\/20160822\/outspending-china-russia-hypersonic-weapons-research.htm\">http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/98936\/20160822\/outspendin...search.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among others, the Pentagon is funding the Lockheed Martin Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) program; the Raytheon Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and the Raytheon\/Lockheed Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program. HTV-2 is a multiyear research and development effort to increase the technical knowledge base and advance critical technologies to make long-duration hypersonic flight a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29222","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\/29222","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66486,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29222\/revisions\/66486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}