{"id":90253,"date":"2019-05-03T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/darpa-preparing-to-test-fly-two-hypersonic-weapons"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T22:43:52","slug":"darpa-preparing-to-test-fly-two-hypersonic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/darpa-preparing-to-test-fly-two-hypersonic-weapons","title":{"rendered":"DARPA preparing to test fly two hypersonic weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-preparing-to-test-fly-two-hypersonic-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is eyeing flight tests later this year for two hypersonic weapons, and it is teaming up with the US Army on developing such a ground-launched capability. However, at the same time, army leaders are drafting plans to consolidate duelling lines of effort within their hypersonic weapons\u2019 portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>During a 1 May Defense Writers\u2019 Group breakfast with reporters, DARPA Director Dr Steven Walker fielded questions about ongoing projects inside the Pentagon\u2019s research arm including the development of two hypersonic weapons with the US Air Force (USAF) \u2014 the Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) and the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[They are] two very different concepts but when you\u2019re talking hypersonic [weapons], it is good to have what I consider intended redundancy because it\u2019s a hard technology, making materials and propulsion systems that last in 3,000\u00b0 Fahrenheit temperatures is not easy,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janes.com\/article\/88272\/darpa-preparing-to-test-fly-two-hypersonic-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is eyeing flight tests later this year for two hypersonic weapons, and it is teaming up with the US Army on developing such a ground-launched capability. However, at the same time, army leaders are drafting plans to consolidate duelling lines of effort within their hypersonic weapons\u2019 portfolio. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90253","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}