US Air Force closes HCSW hypersonic weapon development program

US Air Force halts one of two hypersonic development programs weapons. According to Anne Stefaneck, spokesman for the Air Force, the program for developing the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) fell under the reduction.

The HCSW program was one of Lockheed Martin’s hypersonic missile development projects for the B-52 strategic bomber. The reason for stopping the program was the limited allocation of funds within the Pentagon's military budget for 2021, which led to the choice of financing only one of the programs: either HCSW, or a program for developing a split hypersonic complex called "Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon" - ARRW).

The US Air Force Command decided to retain the ARRW program because it is more of a “unique planning block design” than the HCSW.

As previously reported, the HCSW program created a long-range missile with a speed of more than Mach 5, capable of breaking through the missile defense system (in the initial version), further plans for its development have already been curtailed, the company received a notification that there was no funding for the HCSW program.

Earlier, the head of the US Air Force Logistics Command, General Arnold Bunch, said that the US Air Force is developing two types of hypersonic weapons and expects to receive initial combat readiness by the 2022 year. The Air Force implements two programs - HCSW and ARRW (Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon and Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon).

As previously reported, the development of hypersonic weapons programs HCSW and ARRW for the US Air Force is engaged in Lockheed Martin. The first flight tests of hypersonic warheads with the ARRW air launch system (also labeled AGM-183A) took place in the United States in June 2019 and were recognized successful.

It should be noted that in addition to the US Air Force, its own programs for creating hypersonic weapons are conducted by the US Navy and DARPA, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Programs of the US

Comments

[Victor_B]

Salvage sawing a national sport.
They ran and ran with their hypersound, clucking like a chicken with an egg, and suddenly - all in a fart into the air?
And how much chatter and beat in the chest!
Well, I couldn’t! (For these okhuliards, give more!)

[Romka]

Who are you talking about?

[Tatyana]

US Air Force closes HCSW hypersonic weapon development program

Something I hardly believe in it. This draws more to military-strategic misinformation from the US / Pentagon!

[Victor_B]

Quote: Tatiana

Something I hardly believe in it. This draws more to military misinformation from the US / Pentagon!

Well, perhaps the public is misinformed.
Our leadership, for sure, is informed about the real situation.
So for the money clucking!

[Tatyana]

I believe that the US budget itself is not a problem for such developments.
Most likely the case is the upcoming presidential election company in the United States.

After the presidential election in the United States, the situation will become clearer, and we will learn more truthfully about the intentions of the USA / Pentagon on this development.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Tatiana

Most likely it is the upcoming presidential election campaign in the United States

By the way, yes!
Gad Trump does not give money!
Poor unfortunate darpa!
There are no polymers on hypersound! Have passed away!
(Cry Yaroslavny Democrats on impeachment lost)

[Cananecat]

Just repeating a project with hypersound like F 35 from the same company is hard even for the American budget)))

[ltc35]

They definitely have enough budget. Here most likely a question of expediency. Pulling a few similar developments is irrational for the army of any country.

[figwam]

Quote: Tatiana

This draws more to military-strategic misinformation from the US / Pentagon!

Why? Of the two programs, HCSW (Hypersonic Conventional Impact Weapon) and ARRW (Air Rapid Response Weapon), one (HCSW) fell off, and ARRW remained. Now they will experience, I wish you failure.

[g1washntwn]

This is only for the Air Force. The article also says that there are DARPA and the Navy and the hellish bratrachts who are bald in the left offices for this hypersound. And everyone needs budgets ...

[Piramidon]

Quote: Tatiana

Something I hardly believe in it. This draws more to military-strategic misinformation from the US / Pentagon!

I think that there are enough "Stirlitz" in the Pentagon, and so simple misinformation will not work.

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Tatiana

Something I hardly believe in it.

Why not so?

led to the choice of financing only one of the programs: either HCSW, or a split hypersonic development program
complex called "Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon" (ARRW).

The classic "Bolivar can't stand two".

[mark1]

Quote: Tatiana

This draws more to military-strategic misinformation from the US / Pentagon!

It’s just that they closed the program under one cipher, they will open it under another.

[Victor_B]

Quote: Romka

Who are you talking about?

Duc about the poor unfortunate darpu!

[Vyacheslav Viktorovich]

Darpas are fine, they have their own HAWC (Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept) program, no one has cut it.

[knn54]

But the last paragraph makes you think, have closed ALL programs or one of the main ones?

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: knn54

closed ALL programs or one of the main ones?

Nobody can say about the "main", but the fact that there is only one left is said clearly.

[Vyacheslav Viktorovich]

One program remained with the Air Force.

[Observer2014]

Quote: Victor_B

Salvage sawing a national sport.
They ran and ran with their hypersound, clucking like a chicken with an egg, and suddenly - all in a fart into the air?
And how much chatter and beat in the chest!
Well, I couldn’t! (For these okhuliards, give more!)

Strongly primitive. Sounds. Do not you find? Our loot of course to cut is not a national sport? Just do not need about the amount. What is the budget for such amounts of sawing. Or the Americans are "stupid" They more than compensated the other day for the lag in hypersonic weapons by placing small charges on their strategic missiles And really flying time if we start to sort through the shelves. Range. And the number of the same pennants in the fleets of the ocean zone. Plus, all the possible nuances that just do not want to voice comments in one comment. What about garlic we get in the ending? We will get Victor Petrovich -Parity.!

[antique]

Everything will be fine with them. The rational decision.

[Maalkavianin]

And not the official reason, apparently because they received information from ours and decided to figure out how it works for us. A little change and give out for development, and not saw from scratch.

[Vasily Ponomarev]

Quote: Victor_B

Salvage sawing a national sport.
They ran and ran with their hypersound, like a chicken with an egg and suddenly everything was farted into the air?
And how much chatter and beat in the chest!

and how is it with us on a drink, max 28 already fly with might and main, or have gone 38 already? Https: //kungurov.livejournal.com/223624.html

[kot423]

Pf ... What kind of noun 77g.r from LJ is now for trolls of the authoritative air force of mattress? The trolls were completely crushed ...

[figwam]

Quote: kot423

Pf ... What kind of noun 77g.r from LJ is now for trolls of the authoritative air force of mattress?

)))) Vasily tries, but nothing happens.

[Victor_B]

Quote: figvam

Vasily tries, but nothing comes of it.

Chill out Vasya!
In the old days, we always called Vaska’s cat.
Well, now in Russia all the red cats are Chubais.

[CAT BAIYUN]

The reason for the program to stop was the limited allocation of funds within the Pentagon's military budget for 2021

Can not be! Is the cut paper over?

[lis-ik]

Quote: CAT BAYUN

The reason for the program to stop was the limited allocation of funds within the Pentagon's military budget for 2021

Can not be! Is the cut paper over?

Or smarter than steel. Ceased to believe in different cartoons! Where do we have it in service and massively entering the troops? Only promises and shifts to the right! It is already enough to live in a vast decline!

[Prjanik]

The vanguards are in our arsenal, and they were shown to amers in "nature", not cartoons. We are waiting for Zircon.

[lis-ik]

Quote: Prjanik

The vanguards are in our arsenal, and they were shown to amers in "nature", not cartoons. We are waiting for Zircon.

Vanguards are ballistics or a maneuvering unit, formerly under the USSR it was called "Albatross". Wait!

[K-612-O]

Yes, the level of your competence and knowledge is amazing. Do not work in Sarov?

[Tank jacket]

Would cease to believe would close both programs

[KCA]

The Avangard was launched at the Kura test site, which the United States perfectly "sees", they could not miss the launch, because any ballistic missile launches were notified in advance, so the entire flight and all parameters were tracked, was there a refutation of the characteristics declared by Russia? Reloading an ICBM into a mine is not a matter of 2 minutes, the latest information was about putting one UR-100N UUTKh on experimental combat duty with the Avangard BB and preparations are underway to load the second mine

[Piramidon]

Quote: lis-ik

Where do we have it in service and massively entering the troops?

"Dagger" is not an example for you? Or are you just here to defecate on my country?

[lis-ik]

Quote: Piramidon

Quote: lis-ik

Where do we have it in service and massively entering the troops?

"Dagger" is not an example for you? Or are you just here to defecate on my country?

Stepan! This is my country first! And I do not want all kinds of pyramids to wear pink glasses and look only at the right channels and worldview. Stepan. My advice. Read more and think at least sometimes.

[Piramidon]

Seryozha, I also don’t want all sorts of "lis-ik-i" to douse my country with sewage and think that there is nothing good in it. I advise you to think too.

This is my country first!

I doubt it very much. Perhaps it was in the first place, but it became the second.

[bk316]

Where do we have it in service and massively entering the troops?

And there will be no mass daggers why? The same means of defeating aircraft carriers, well, if the United States makes a hundred Aviks then yes, and when there are five of their combat-ready ones, why more than 2 dozen daggers?

[Ros 56]

What can I say, well, not enough money.

[Cowbra]

The HCSW program was one of the projects developed by the company. Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Lobby - Cheat, Clinton, and their Caudle like Biden with Pelossi
And so - of course there is no corruption there. I won’t be surprised if they give back the rest in a year to Reiteon

[g1washntwn]

It is normal practice to transfer promising developments. The principle of "brainstorming" and natural selection - many projects are launched, then there is a competition and screening, more or less viable and applicable ideas are replicated on the rest.
And here, looking at attempts to cross the hedgehog with a boa constrictor ... sorry, Ilyushin and Sukhoi, in general, they are trying to bury the last hints of such an approach under Rostec's papers. And we will work on the principle of the blonde - In the world there is only one correct opinion and it is mine!

[Cowbra]

"Only the song, alas, not about how people quarreled with a cat"
We have just a promising development - generally in service. But they have nothing to do with "selling" and "promising developments."
Number of times -

Quote: g1washntwn

In the world there is only one correct opinion and it is mine!

This is just about the fact that the program was left alone.
Number TWO - the program from Lockheed again fell under the reduction. this despite the fact that at the same time, for example, they launched the Raytheon program with the update of radars, under which actually there are NO missile defense missiles.
It means slowly - there are no rockets, there is no money, therefore we will start the unnecessary program, and we will cut the necessary one (we need to desperately hypersonic - we are already behind) - we will cut it.
And all this has nothing to do with the fact that the Lokhidov’s lobby was removed from power, and the Minister of Defense - employee Reiteon.
EVERYTHING that you said above is NOT about us, but about the United States. This is called "LOBBY":

Quote: g1washntwn

In the world there is only one correct opinion and it is mine!

[Tank jacket]

Ba ... Break the liberal pattern. It turns out that the United States can run out of money with its printing press. What's the matter??? Type more. What does not help? Apparently the liberal economic model has outlived itself (c) And there is no one else to come up with another in the West ...

[K-50]

The US Air Force is halting one of two hypersonic weapon development programs. The reason for the program to stop was the limited allocation of funds within the Pentagon's military budget for 2021,

Or the reason is different, with such and such a budget, "Well, I didn't, I didn't. "

[Lord of the Sith]

The music played for a short time, the fraer did not dance for long)

[Vasily Ponomarev]

judging by the comments, someone else believes any words of Putin https://sl-lopatnikov.livejournal.com/1989431.html

[DMB 75]

Here is the "avngard"
media = https: //youtu.be/BWtNXkKO4MY]
Here is the "dagger"
[media=https://yandex.ru/efir?stream_id=488f07638b24eea0ac0e3a6eeea22a0a&from_block=logo_partner_player]
Here is the "zircon"

[Nikalab]

Here is the "zircon"

In the video, obviously, the launch of the Mosquito. The appearance of "Zircon" is not yet publicly available.

[bk316]

From a technical point of view, neither the Avangard nor the Dagger (the decision is just quite correct) are in no way hypersonic weapons.

Here it is that the training manual has been updated!
Yesterday still "you fsevrete this cartoons."
And today it is a "technical point of view".
Of course, all that is not medinus is not a real hypersound, as well as gas from Gazprom is not democratic

[Cowbra]

On the hypersound Alena Mask received a patent. So all these zircons cannot reach hypersound.

[Thrifty]

Wow! All other characteristics are sideways, the main thing is the design! And on a rocket to draw all sorts of little things there, flowers, goldfish, for sure, will be adopted, even if maneuvering is a bit better than a brick that fell from the roof of the house!

[bk316]

the main thing is design!

And then! Marketing and design are twin brothers.
And marketing is the head of everything. For example, do not care that the Patriots do not bring down anything, for how beautifully called

[Vasily Ponomarev]

Quote: bk316

From a technical point of view, neither the Avangard nor the Dagger (the decision is just quite correct) are in no way hypersonic weapons.

Here it is that the training manual has been updated!
Yesterday still "you fsevrete this cartoons."
And today it is a "technical point of view".
Of course, all that is not medinus is not a real hypersound, as well as gas from Gazprom is not democratic

yeah, the training manual has changed, like the laws of physics, try to explain about 28 max

[Vasily Ponomarev]

Quote: DMB 75

Here is the "avngard"
media = https: //youtu.be/BWtNXkKO4MY]
Here is the "dagger"
[media=https://yandex.ru/efir?stream_id=488f07638b24eea0ac0e3a6eeea22a0a&from_block=logo_partner_player]
Here is the "zircon"

I don’t know, should I comment on something, judging by the condition of the ship from which the anti-ship missile tests are being carried out, they just have to test the hypersound, I also liked how they wrote about 8 km / s, it could be attributed even more that they’re embarrassed

[bk316]

I also liked how they wrote about 8 km / s,

Baaa. And I thought you were an agent, and you are a junior high school student probably a bulk chick.
A child of 8000 km / h is not at all 8 km / s.

[Thrifty]

Vasily Ponomarev, why not thank God? Your opinion is not the opinion of a higher authority, it is only an attempt to understand what you are far from. Simply, you need to solve the problem of rocket overheating in dense layers of the atmosphere. It is resolved, no matter what else prevents the rocket from flying at a speed of 7,8 km / s? She will not make a hundred turns around the planet. It will fly thousands of kilometers and hit the target, and strike at hypersound, and not slow down to supersonic sound, as some comrades naively write on the site!

[voyaka uh]

It was a project of a classic ramjet cruise missile flying horizontally in dense atmospheric layers.
No one else has developed such a project. The device flies overheating in a cloud of plasma. Difficulty with heat-resistant materials, difficulty with control.
However, one trial was completely successful. But this is not enough.
Russia and China went the simple way: BR launches a planning warhead into space. From there, she plans from a height of 100 km to 40, and then vertically attacks the target.
Without any ramjet engine. Only with gas side rudders. Much easier. Now the Americans are creating the same thing. Your "Vanguard"

[Thrifty]

Warrior, how long will a rocket fly by inertia at an altitude of 40 kilometers without having its own engine? And, in the process of a maneuver, a "dive" or a dip in the atmosphere is possible, this is a loss of altitude, and as a consequence of this, the loss of a rocket! And, please, do not tell anyone that Russian hypersonic missiles do not have an engine for acceleration and maneuver in the atmosphere - knowledgeable people will laugh at such a statement!

[voyaka uh]

On the booster - which is the first stage of a conventional liquid ballistic missile (long discontinued), naturally, there is an engine that accelerates the first stage to the first cosmic speed. Conventional rocket engine. And the Vanguard itself has no engine - this is a planning warhead - not counting the gas rudders - openings on the side for small maneuvers.

[Thrifty]

Alexey, you obviously do not want to understand that if the Avangard were pure "inertial" without an engine, then there would be no sense in it! Possibility of maneuver, braking, or even additional acceleration due to the loss of altitude and speed during a long flight in dense layers atmosphere and make a hypersonic missile combat and not passive, capable of working only over areas, then there is no point in such a missile. And the presence of an engine, and the possibility of maneuvering and additional acceleration, makes the Vanguard and Zircon weapons capable of maneuvering ACTIVELY at the expense of the engine to hit a nominal moving target, such as a cruiser.

[voyaka uh]

"during a long flight in dense layers of the atmosphere" ////
----
It does not fly horizontally in dense layers of the atmosphere.
This is only possible with a ramjet engine.
On what the Americans were burnt with their project.
Vanguard flies, smoothly descending, from space
and without entering the dense atmosphere abruptly dives down to the target.
Only in this way you can not slow down to supersonic (on it - easily knocked down)
and hit the target.

[K-612-O]

You are mistaken, the Vanguard is precisely a controlled apparatus, moreover, both vertically and horizontally

[Vasily Ponomarev]

Quote: bk316

the main thing is design!

And then! Marketing and design are twin brothers.
And marketing is the head of everything. For example, do not care that the Patriots do not bring down anything, for how beautifully called

[Vasily Ponomarev]

Quote: figvam

Quote: kot423

Pf ... What kind of noun 77g.r from LJ is now for trolls of the authoritative air force of mattress?

)))) Vasily tries, but nothing happens.

eka how easy it is, no one said how to reach a speed of Mach 28 (even to modern rockets), but just write that nothing works, and here's a profit, and you seem to win, nothing needs to be proved, but okay, normal people have already understood everything, explain it to a silly one I don't see the point, as they say "questions of faith are priceless to me"

[kot423]

And what to talk about, doesn’t come to himself? why on earth would I take my word for some kind of no-name, moreover, NOBODY and NEVER will give a full description of the technical characteristics of the secret development. With the same success, the mattresses sang about the railgun, and where is it? So you can get into the gums with a small nooname, for the majority on this site he is NOBODY and call him NO.

[Lamata]

Izza design save the project !!! ???

[Vasily Ponomarev]

Quote: bk316

I also liked how they wrote about 8 km / s,

Baaa. And I thought you were an agent, and you are a junior high school student probably a bulk chick.
A child of 8000 km / h is not at all 8 km / s.

oh, okay, I’ve been mistaken, don’t think that I’m so stupid as to confuse these indicators, with whom it doesn’t happen, although I liked the agent and Navalny, I thought you would somehow react in an original way, otherwise you’d be bored they called me the fifth column, the liberal, (you’ve already called me the agent)

[bk316]

okay you wrong

I explain. Once I already wrote. Only a person who is completely off topic can make a mistake. Just as a programmer cannot write a program, an air defense officer or rocket launcher will never confuse km / h with km / s.
So work carefully with the training manual.
And whose agent does anyone know from me, maybe bulk, maybe Hodor, maybe Soros, maybe the State Department or 404. Your name is legion ....

[Paranoid50]

Quote: Vasily Ponomarev

wrong

Not the right word.

Quote: Vasily Ponomarev

don't think I'm so stupid

What has grown has grown - it happens ... Here you just will not meet.

[rocket757]

This seems to be the case. What can be discussed there if there is nothing?

[Operator]

Where did the adherents of the eternal printing press of the United States instantly evaporate - put their tongues in their asses?

[Old26]

Quote: mark1

It’s just that they closed the program under one cipher, they will open it under another.

Closed program is not a priority. It should start with F-15, while not being strategic and nuclear

Quote: Vasyan1971

Quote: knn54

closed ALL programs or one of the main ones?

Nobody can say about the "main", but the fact that there is only one left is said clearly.

One being developed by the Air Force. And there are also programs developed by the army and navy ...

Quote: KCA

the last information was about setting one UR-100N UUTKh with the Avangard BB on experimental combat duty and preparations are underway to load the second mine

Put on pilot combat duty launch minimum. And these are 2 silos and a command post.

[for]

And they generally need them, they are not going to fight with us, but no one else. And they will have enough weapons to cause chaos.

[Old26]

Quote: Thrifty

Alexey, you obviously do not want to understand that if the Avangard were pure "inertial" without an engine, then there would be no sense in it! Possibility of maneuver, braking, or even additional acceleration due to the loss of altitude and speed during a long flight in dense layers atmosphere and make a hypersonic missile combat and not passive, capable of working only over areas, then there is no point in such a missile. And the presence of an engine, and the possibility of maneuvering and additional acceleration, makes the Vanguard and Zircon weapons capable of maneuvering ACTIVELY at the expense of the engine to hit a nominal moving target, such as a cruiser.

first... To begin with, the Vanguard is not designed to destroy ships. This is not an anti-ship missile, but the combat equipment of an ICBM.
Second... The "Vanguard" certainly has the ability to maneuver, especially lateral. But all this maneuvering is very smooth. With a sharp maneuver, it will simply fall apart from overload.
The third. The possibility of overclocking and braking can only be on a cruise missile, which has been running a ramjet engine all this time. What rocket engines can be shoved into a device with a length of 4-4,5 meters and a plane span of 2-2,4 meters - I don’t know such an engine that it not only accelerates the vehicle when braking, but also performs vertical maneuvers many times
Fourth. In dense atmospheric layers such an apparatus does not fly. At speeds of 10M and at altitudes of about 11 km he has a temperature of about 6000 ° C, that is, the Sun. In dense layers, he can only move by reducing the speed to supersonic ...

[sgr291158]

Honestly, the mind is not enough.

[Norbert]

Remember, the Americans closed the drone program that year - https://topwar.ru/157049-v-ssha-svernuli-programmu-sozdanija-bespilotnika-novogo-pokolenija.html#comment-id-9298092
it’s not cost saving, just not enough brains. there is a shortage of qualified personnel on drones (they concentrate on the main), but here they simply cannot solve the physics problem. this is not for you hundreds of IT specialists from Russia who work in the valley. This is his mother, Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon, the defense industry and the latest secret developments (and there are very few good physicists in the world)