Welcome to the jungle - US super/hypersonic programs

The Army version of the missile is called the Dark Eagle:

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ARRW failed again:

www.defensenews.com... on/

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Joint Ozzie, ahem, Aussie and American SciFire Hypersonic Cruise Missile moves forward:

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a reply to: Zaphod58

shocked to see the sub stuff on there

ground and air launched, 300 km, hypersonic missile. Can be used with the JF-17.


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a reply to: anzha

a few oldies but still goodies






China seems to be closing the gap but the gap is still pretty large.

I fear people under estimating China because that would be a deadly mistake.

that being said they are where we were in the mid 80's or so it seems.

here is an amazing video from TED by Regina Dugan and there is a cool video of them testing in space.

TED link


here is a cool re entry MaRV

a reply to: penroc3

“The target set that we would want to address, and why hypersonics are the most cost effective weapons for the U.S., I think it’s still to me somewhat of a question mark,” he added. “I haven’t seen all the analysis that’s been done to justify the current program.”

Sounds like a cancellation threat to me. Are we really ahead?

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a reply to: anzha

or just not in the loop.


that last picture of the warhead doing that abrupt turn is a Pershing II warhead, from the cold war.....

i saw the video of the HTV-2 test from the bus and it was pretty impressive. Hypersonics have been here and a going to stay hear, weather a general or whoever says differently.

its on youtube somewhere

One picture in this thread is the closest thing to the Roswell craft I’ve seen…
The bottom is wrong the top would just need to be exaggerated a little more like an elongated flattened egg… get rid of the black on the nose round it off and lose the writing… The tail fins quite a bit longer the angle is pretty close…
then if the colour was a dull blue greyish silver that was still high gloss and looked like glass or deep water casting shadows on itself that would be it…

a reply to: penroc3

or just not in the loop.

Do you think we can build the Saturn V rocket still? We did it for years, so we should be able to do it again, right?

The General must have been talking smack about the ARRW program, because...HAWC flew and faster than Mach 5:

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a reply to: anzha

i think we can build better rockets let alone god know what else is flying aroud

Just need build it bigger and have it manned..

HAWC had a 2nd successful flight:

www.flightglobal.com...

Zummy to do a hypersonic test:

news.usni.org...

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ARRW failed and is in danger of cancellation now:

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a reply to: penroc3

More oldies.

ARRW is dead.

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a reply to: anzha
All the bad bits that didnt work would be.All the good bits will be put on a shelf and reused on something better..