AS RUSSIA DEMONSTRATES HYPERSONIC MISSILE CAPABILITY, US DITCHES PROJECT
Air Force ditches plans to buy first hypersonic ARRW missile in FY23
The Air-Launched Rapid Response weapon is getting $46.6 million in FY23 to continue development, but the future of the program remains cloudy.
WASHINGTON: The US Air Force has no plans to buy its first Lockheed Martin-made AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon in the fiscal 2023 budget, a signal it has hit pause on what was once planned to be its first operational hypersonic weapon.
According to Defense Department budget documents, the Air Force has requested $46.6 million to procure one ARRW missile in FY23. But the service instead will transfer that “sliver of procurement” funding back into the research and development portion of the budget, and no procurement of ARRW is planned this year, Maj. Gen. James Peccia, the Air Force’s deputy assistant secretary for budget, said during a budget briefing on Monday.
When asked whether the Air Force had plans to cancel the program, Peccia responded that the service is “not walking away” from ARRW but did not express any plans to buy the missile in future budgets.
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This is almost hilarious considering we developed the SR-71 blackbird in the 60’s. We never opened the engines to full. One presumes because humans couldn’t handle it?
But the resemblance of hyper-sonics to the blackbird can’t be a coincidence.
Something all the Raytheon engineers missed for our cruise missiles?
Something don’t smell right.
Its simple. Design parameters plus a culture that places more emphasis on social justice than STEM.
The boomers dropped the ball, bad.
Find some way to make fake and gay and the Village People MIL will approve.
The FUSA is the designated loser of WWIII as ordered by the Schwab-SPECTRE.
You have to burn it all down in order to build the CCCP back better.