{"id":1487353,"date":"2022-05-22T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487353"},"modified":"2022-05-22T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T12:30:25","slug":"u-s-program-to-counter-hypersonic-weapons-enters-next-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-program-to-counter-hypersonic-weapons-enters-next-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Program to Counter Hypersonic Weapons Enters Next Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-program-to-counter-hypersonic-weapons-enters-next-phase%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"title-alt-01\"><span class=\"font-color-01\">Counter-Hypersonic Program Enters Next Phase<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-main-img\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/-\/media\/sites\/magazine\/2022\/05\/glidebreaker-619-316.ashx?h=500&#038;w=878&#038;la=en&#038;hash=4AC16BFF93713690C9D80F4D2E10EFF0\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                            <\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">DARPA concept<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, racing to enable technologies to defend against hypersonic weapons, has entered the second phase of its Glide Breaker counter-hypersonic program. <\/p>\n<p>Like Patriot, or other current anti-missile systems, the aim of Glide Breaker is to take down a hypersonic weapon in flight by guiding a kill vehicle directly into the oncoming weapon. Given the speed and maneuverability of hypersonic weapons, the task of striking one in glide phase is far more complex than taking out an oncoming ballistic missile. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ballistic threat is not maneuvering \u2026 and you don\u2019t have this air flow around the overall body,\u201d said Maj. Nathan Greiner, DARPA program manager for Glide Breaker. <\/p>\n<p>The speed, altitude, jet interactions and other dynamics of striking down a hypersonic are novel. \u201cWe, simply put, do not have a very large data set to help us understand these things,\u201d he said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike the \u201cgobs\u201d of data on existing flight technologies, when it comes to counter-hypersonic flight, \u201cthere\u2019s almost nothing for us to base our scientific understanding on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2018, Glide Breaker\u2019s first phase \u2014 awarded to Aerojet Rocketdyne and Northrop Grumman \u2014 focused on developing a \u201cdivert and attitude control system\u201d necessary for a kill vehicle to intercept and destroy a highly maneuverable hypersonic weapon in glide. <\/p>\n<p>DARPA\u2019s April 14 Broad Agency Announcement for phase 2 seeks proposals to conduct wind-tunnel and flight testing to gather data on endo-atmospheric effects \u2014 the impact of jet interactions between the divert and attitude control system and hypersonic crossflow, and how that affects controlling and maneuvering the kill vehicle, said Greiner.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA laid out a 48-month roadmap for phase 2. The expectation is that the contract winner will conduct 24 months of wind-tunnel testing, and then construct a demonstration vehicle for two flight tests in months 36 and 48 of the contract. <\/p>\n<p>The limited supply of and high demand for wind-tunnel facilities requires a two-year window for providers to conduct testing, Greiner explained. The upside of the time investment is that the data will create \u201ca starting point for programs in the future to design their operating systems,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Greiner said that Glide Breaker is running in parallel with the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s Glide Phase Interceptor program contract issued to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Missiles and Defense to develop a system to defeat hypersonic missiles. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re standing up a new capability that programs of record such as GPI can follow in after our program ends,\u201d Greiner said. <\/p>\n<p>The contract winner will need to create a demonstration vehicle, but DARPA is agnostic on the physical product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re leaving it up to performers in terms of how they want to go forward and implement the technical solution for the actual payload itself with the understanding that the focus is really on gathering the external aerodynamics data,\u201d said Greiner.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                <strong class=\"font-color-01 font-size-02\">Topics:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={A690B736-E42E-4635-B421-F07BA010522E}\">Emerging Technologies<\/a>\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-Hypersonic Program Enters Next Phase  DARPA concept The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, racing to enable technologies to defend against hypersonic weapons, has entered the second phase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}