US Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test
A deal's a deal. Despite canning Lockheed Martin's hypersonic weapon program over repeat failures, the US Air Force is still flying planned tests of the platform – including one over the weekend that the Air Force isn't giving many details on., is Lockheed's experimental hypersonic weapon, classified as missiles able to travel greater than Mach 5 while also being maneuverable.
Given the Air Force's similarly limited description of tests over the past weekend, it may be safe to assume it didn't go according to plan. "A B-52H Stratofortress conducted a recent test of the All-Up-Round AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon," a USAF spokesperson told"While we won't discuss specific test objectives, this test acquired valuable, unique data [that] also validated and improved our test and evaluation capabilities for continued development of advanced hypersonic systems," the Air Force spokesperson told us.
Questions to the Air Force regarding the actual outcome of the test and the current status of the ARRW program went unanswered.ARRW, the branch said it still intended to carry out tests on the two remaining ARRW prototypes in its inventory, one of which was fired this weekend. With news that ARRW was canceled and other projects have since been funded, it appears the USAF is slightly changing tack on its hypersonic designs.
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