{"id":1908601,"date":"2023-04-01T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-whats-next-in-u-s-hypersonic-efforts-as-air-force-scraps-arrw\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:44:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:44:17","slug":"heres-whats-next-in-u-s-hypersonic-efforts-as-air-force-scraps-arrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-whats-next-in-u-s-hypersonic-efforts-as-air-force-scraps-arrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What\u2019s Next in U.S. Hypersonic Efforts as Air Force Scraps ARRW"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fheres-whats-next-in-u-s-hypersonic-efforts-as-air-force-scraps-arrw%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=1908601&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-->\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force has decided to halt the development of a boost-glide missile and focus on a hypersonic weapon powered by a scramjet following an unsuccessful test. The Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) program will not undergo any further procurement once the prototyping program comes to an end, said Air Force acquisition head Andrew Hunter on Thursday. According to Mark Lewis, former head of the Pentagon\u2019s hypersonics efforts, shrinking the size of the missile posed significant technical challenges. Nevertheless, he said that the R&#038;D effort should not be considered a failure as the U.S. hypersonics research is making progress in various services.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force can now concentrate its efforts on developing the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) program, which is more practical and cost-effective. A hypersonic air-breathing missile using scramjet technology will cost less than other hypersonic missile efforts as the technology has been around since 2002. The Air Force ended its previous scramjet missile program in 2012, which Lewis called a mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has been lagging behind China and Russia in hypersonic weapons development. The deployment of operational hypersonic missiles by Russia has caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers. They likened its impact to the use of the longbow at the battle of Agincourt, calling hypersonics a priority for the U.S. military. The Pentagon&#8217;s 2024 budget proposal includes a request for $11 billion to develop hypersonic weapons and defenses against them.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining obstacles include building test ranges and facilities and producing high-temperature materials needed for aerospace applications to manufacture hypersonic systems. The cancellation of the ARRW is a setback for Lockheed Martin, but the exact impact on the company&#8217;s financial bottom line is unknown, as the Pentagon does not disclose detailed information about projected purchases of hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marcus Weisgerber contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is shelving its effort to make a boost-glide missile after an unsuccessful test, but will press on with a scramjet-powered hypersonic weapon, the service\u2019s acquisition chief said Thursday.The service \u201cdoes not currently intend to pursue follow-on procurement of the ARRW\u201d\u2014Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon\u2014\u201conce the prototyping program concludes,\u201d Air Force acquisition head Andrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908602,"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":[547],"tags":[6229,23299,5564,4649,3751,8915,5253,7238,7656],"class_list":["post-1908601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-air","tag-arrw","tag-efforts","tag-force","tag-heres","tag-hypersonic","tag-scraps","tag-u-s","tag-whats"],"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\/1908601","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=1908601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}