US Navy plans to get hypersonic missiles for submarines by 2028

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US Navy plans to get hypersonic missiles for submarines by 2028

Until the end of this year, the US Navy intends to conduct a series of static tests of individual elements of promising hypersonic weapons for multipurpose nuclear submarines. This was stated by US Admiral Johnny Wolf, Project Manager for Strategic Systems Development, US Navy.

The US Navy plans to get hypersonic missiles into service with submarines of the Virginia type by the mid-to-late 2020s. About the project of equipping submarines with such weapon was announced in mid-February of this year. The project provides for the development of a launch vehicle carrying a hypersonic glider C-HGB. The carrier, starting from the side of the submarine, is developed by the Navy independently, and the hypersonic glider is developed jointly with the US Army.



At the current stage, a series of static fire tests of promising carrier engines is planned, as well as several technologies that will allow the integration of new hypersonic weapons into submarines in the future. Fully work on the project should be completed before 2028, when new weapons should be taken into service.

According to data released earlier, the program creates a two-stage launch vehicle with a diameter of 87,6 centimeters, which should carry a hypersonic glider C-HGB. The rocket should accelerate it to hypersonic speed, after which the glider should independently plan for the target.

Submarines such as Virginia block5 will be able to carry 40 new missiles.
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    1. +1
      April 14 2020 14: 26
      Block 5 Virginia class submarines will be able to carry up to 40 new missiles.

      40 missiles are Tomahawks, and ballistic missiles with a guided warhead will be approximately 4.
      1. +1
        April 14 2020 14: 52
        Quote: Pyotr Tverdokhlebov
        40 missiles are Tomahawks, and ballistic missiles with a guided warhead will be approximately 4

        4 is the number of mines in VPM. How many BRs will fit into such a "glass" strongly depends on the final dimensions of these BRs.
      2. 0
        April 14 2020 14: 59
        Ohio has 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles on board.
        "Virginia" has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles with small nuclear charges with a yield of five kilotons. Which are planned to be replaced by 40 carriers with hypersonic units.
        1. -1
          April 14 2020 15: 05
          Quote: knn54
          "
          "Virginia" has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles with small nuclear weapons.

          winged
          1. +1
            April 14 2020 17: 14
            Quote: Tlauicol
            Quote: knn54
            "
            "Virginia" has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles with small nuclear weapons.

            winged

            Quote: Kalmar
            Quote: knn54
            "Virginia" has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles

            Actually, they're Tomahawks. There is no BR in the same dimensions.

            PU Mk41-universal.
            1. -1
              April 14 2020 17: 30
              Quote: Dead Day
              PU Mk41-universal.

              Not only universal, but also ship... And there is only one BR for them - ASROC (anti-submarine). On "Virginias" PUs are slightly different.
        2. +1
          April 14 2020 15: 09
          Quote: knn54
          "Virginia" has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles

          Actually, they're Tomahawks. There is no BR in the same dimensions.
          1. +1
            April 14 2020 16: 41
            It’s just a new missile in the dimensions of the Tomahawk’s first stage with a turbojet engine which will throw a combat controlled unit with a scramjet to an altitude of 40 kilometers or more, and that one will already be carrying out a mass planning flight with fuel and warhead in the region of 500 - 700 kilograms. The first stage accelerator can be taken from the SM 3 of the last modification, they will just increase it in diameter from 533 mm to 870 mm, the acceleration speed to 4,5 kilometers per second.
            1. -1
              April 14 2020 17: 32
              Quote: Vadim237
              new missile in dimensions Tomahawk

              Quote: Vadim237
              just increase it in diameter from 533 mm to 870 mm

              Am I confused something: is it in size, or is it with an increased diameter?
              1. 0
                April 14 2020 19: 22
                They write that supposedly the diameter will be 870 mm - but this is unlikely since it will have to redo all the launchers on all the nuclear submarines, since those are under 533 mm and this is also a crap. It is easier to take the first stage from an existing missile defense missile with a diameter of 533 mm and put on it a hypersonic unit with a similar diameter.
                1. -1
                  April 15 2020 08: 51
                  Quote: Vadim237
                  They write that supposedly the diameter will be 870 mm - but this is unlikely since it will have to redo all launchers on all submarines

                  This is not unlikely, it is. On the Block V modification, a piece called VPM was invented: a special module compartment with four large-diameter shafts. Each such mine can be equipped with a launcher for 7 Tomahawks (similar to that of the Ohio) or larger-caliber missiles (there will, of course, be fewer of them). The existing nuclear submarines, as I understand it, are also planning to be remodeled for the installation of this notion (most likely, not all, but some part for sure).
        3. mvg
          +3
          April 14 2020 15: 59
          has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles with small-sized nuclear charges with a capacity of five kilotons

          The finish. Squirrels are resting, there were only Chipmunks. Yes, and with Ohio, you need to count correctly ... it's not difficult. wassat
    2. 0
      April 14 2020 14: 30
      Our Ash-trees should receive this weapon earlier.
      1. 0
        April 14 2020 14: 38
        Quote: Doccor18
        Our Ash-trees should receive this weapon earlier

        Another would be to have them in comparable quantities ... "Virginia" is already 17, and "Ash" is still one.
    3. -2
      April 14 2020 14: 35
      by 2028 year

      In the meantime, sit in a puddle and catch up ...
    4. 0
      April 14 2020 14: 35
      Those. a hero tomorrow, and a little later ... much later, if you look closely.
      Again the race, who will overtake whom.
    5. +1
      April 14 2020 14: 56
      In the USSR, the development of hypersound began in the 80s. With the arrival of the "tagged", they froze. They resumed in 2004. The first launch of the VP-100N ("Vanguard") in 2011 was unsuccessful, after modifications - the final one in 2015. At the beginning of 2019, he was put on alert. Interestingly, in the 90s, the Americans got to our safes with hypersonic developments?
      1. +1
        April 14 2020 15: 54
        Quote: askort154
        In the USSR, development of hypersound began in the 80s.

        Defenders much earlier No. lol
        "The first use of hypersound
        O. Henry - Pig Ethics.
        "There I took my pig out of the sack, carefully set it up, took a long aim and gave it such a kick that it flew out of the other end of the alley - twenty feet ahead of his screech."
      2. 0
        April 14 2020 16: 44
        A manned hypersonic device in the United States appeared in the early 60s - X15.
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    7. +1
      April 14 2020 17: 05
      The US Navy plans to adopt hypersonic missiles by the mid-to-late 2020s on Virginia-class submarines.

      We are all masters to plan
    8. +2
      April 14 2020 19: 56
      Quote: knn54
      Ohio has 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles on board.
      "Virginia" has 40 launchers for ballistic missiles with small nuclear charges with a yield of five kilotons. Which are planned to be replaced by 40 carriers with hypersonic units.

      Don't make it up, Nikolai. We are talking exclusively about 40 "Axes"

      Quote: Dead Day
      PU Mk41-universal.

      But this does not mean that SLBMs will fit in there.

      Quote: Vadim237
      It’s just a new missile in the dimensions of the Tomahawk’s first stage with a turbojet engine which will throw a combat controlled unit with a scramjet to an altitude of 40 kilometers or more, and that one will already be carrying out a mass planning flight with fuel and warhead in the region of 500 - 700 kilograms. The first stage accelerator can be taken from the SM 3 of the last modification, they will just increase it in diameter from 533 mm to 870 mm, the acceleration speed to 4,5 kilometers per second.

      Vadim, do you even imagine the dimensions of this starter, who will throw a controlled block with ramjet for 40 km?
      1. 0
        April 14 2020 20: 57
        And I don’t need to introduce him - here he is the first step from SM 3 at number 1
        rocket acceleration from 0 to 4.5 kilometers per second.
        1. 0
          April 14 2020 21: 21
          In fact, the basis for such a missile in the United States is this SM 3 Block IIA only instead of the atmospheric interceptor and part of the second-stage fuel, there will be a planning block with expanding wings and a scramjet. Low production costs and versatility for existing launch platforms.
    9. 0
      April 14 2020 20: 04
      It seems that they turned off two hypersound programs.
    10. +2
      April 15 2020 12: 03
      Quote: Vadim237
      rocket acceleration from 0 to 4.5 kilometers per second.

      But not to a height of 40 km, as you wrote.
      1. 0
        April 15 2020 12: 23
        The latest modification of this rocket has a strike altitude of 1500 kilometers - so that the first stage will definitely be able to reach a height of 40.
    11. +2
      April 15 2020 15: 27
      Quote: Vadim237
      The latest modification of this rocket has a strike altitude of 1500 kilometers - so that the first stage will definitely be able to reach a height of 40.

      She can’t do anything. The run time of the accelerator Mk72 EMNIP is 6 seconds. After running out of fuel, it shoots back (1500 kg - 700 kg of TTU) and the Mk-104 two-mode marching engine is launched, which lifts the rocket with the remaining mass of 800 kg through the dense layers of the atmosphere to the boundaries of the exosphere. The active section of the trajectory of this anti-missile ends at an altitude of about 80 km. And only the Mk-104 engine, as well as the third-stage engine Mk-136 displays the interceptor weighing 32 kg at speed and height, where it carries out the interception.

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