{"id":1555918,"date":"2022-07-15T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555918"},"modified":"2022-07-15T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:05:53","slug":"u-s-military-performs-two-successful-hypersonic-missile-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-performs-two-successful-hypersonic-missile-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Performs Two Successful Hypersonic Missile Tests"},"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\">16<\/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-military-performs-two-successful-hypersonic-missile-tests%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=1555918&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>The<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-defense\">Department of Defense<\/a><br \/>\n has successfully conducted two<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hypersonic-weapons\">hypersonic missile<\/a><br \/>\n system tests recently, the<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/air-force\">Air Force<\/a><br \/>\n and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/3092249\/air-force-completes-another-successful-hypersonic-test\/\">said<\/a><br \/>\n on Wednesday that it successfully conducted an Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon Booster Test Flight-3 a day earlier and that \u201cthe AGM-183A weapons system reached hypersonic speeds and primary and secondary objectives were met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ARRW system is a boost-glide system that uses a rocket to accelerate a missile to hypersonic speeds before it then releases the glider that coasts to the target at hypersonic speed, according to<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/13\/politics\/us-hypersonic-tests\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><br \/>\n. It\u2019s expected to provide the military with the capability to destroy time-sensitive targets and will enable rapid response strikes against defended land targets.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran-nucl\">IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE AS TEHRAN SELLS WEAPONS TO RUSSIA<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how fast the ARRW flew, but officials said the test achieved its primary and secondary objectives and reached hypersonic speeds, which is Mach 5 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>DoD\u2019s development of hypersonic weapons has been a key priority, as the United States has fallen behind China, which has significantly increased its military capabilities in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>The Chinese military conducted the first fractional orbital launch of an ICBM with a hypersonic glide vehicle last July, and it \u201cdemonstrated the greatest distance flown (~40,000 kilometers) and longest flight time (~100+ minutes) of any Chinese land attack weapons system to date,\u201d according to a report titled \u201cChallenges to Security in Space \u2014 2022\u201d from the Defense Intelligence Agency, released in April.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday,<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2022-07-13a\">DARPA<\/a><br \/>\n announced that it successfully launched an OpFires missile test from a logistics truck as a medium-range missile launcher. The goal is for regular military trucks to have the ability to employ hypersonic payloads.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe OpFires program is a great example of how DARPA, in partnership with industry, is helping the Department of Defense facilitate rapid development and testing of advanced hypersonic technologies to accelerate the delivery of transformational warfighting capabilities,\u201d said Michael White, principal director for hypersonics in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense has successfully conducted two hypersonic missile system tests recently, the Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced earlier this week.The Air Force said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1555927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555918","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1555927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}