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US Hails New Milestone in Development of Hypersonic Weapons:
In the US drive to acquire an operational hypersonic weapon, after the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) programme was canceled in February due to budget issues, Lockheed Martin had been pushing ahead with the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), with its first captive-carry test held in June 2019.
The US Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have completed successful captive-carry tests of two hypersonic weapon variants designed by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, the organizations announced in a press release on 1 September.
A captive-carry flight test is when missiles remained attached to a test aircraft for the duration of the flight. The method offers an opportunity to accumulate data about how the design, as well as the aircraft carrying it, will perform subsequent free-flight tests.
[...] Both companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, have designed the scramjet-powered hypersonic missiles as part of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program run by the Air Force and DARPA, writes Defense News.
"Completing the captive carry series of tests demonstrates both HAWC designs are ready for free flight," said Andrew Knoedler, DARPA's HAWC program manager, making no mention of the location of the tests or the aircraft used.
The success of the recent tests put the US Air Force one step closer to achieving a long-cherished goal of fielding a hypersonic cruise missile.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @02:25AM (3 children)
Oppressed people's can never match the productivity of a free society. Chinese classist bullshit cannot survive without massive overhead in corruption and unmotivated workforce.
It's like your worst ever workplace but with less pay and no benefits.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 03 2020, @03:05AM (2 children)
You mean like the Silicon Valley wet dream of the gig economy. Supporting insane valuations by ensuring people don't have stable employment or benefits, and declining pay.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by qzm on Thursday September 03 2020, @06:09AM (1 child)
Of course, why do you think all of the heads of the tech corps are working so hard supporting 'socialism'?
Is it because they believe in wealth redistribution? perhaps they believe in the removal of property ownership?
No, its because socialism ALWAYS includes a ruling class, and they see themselves firmly in that class.
However socialism also includes structures to force those not in the ruling class, but with highly valuable skills to give those up for chickfeed.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is why the leaders of twitter, facebook, google, amazon, etc all support 'socialism'.. Its socialism for YOU, not the THEM.
(Score: 2) by Aegis on Thursday September 03 2020, @02:43PM
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