US hypersonic C-HGB test launch
Courtney Albon – Defense News Dec 13, 2024
The Army and Navy on Thursday completed a successful all-up round test of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, potentially paving the way for the services to begin fielding the long-awaited system.
The glide body was developed jointly between the two services. The Army plans to integrate its version of the system, the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, into a mobile ground platform. The Navy will integrate its version, dubbed Conventional Prompt Strike, into a ship-launched capability.
“This test builds on several flight tests in which the Common Hypersonic Glide Body achieved hypersonic speed at target distances and demonstrates that we can put this capability in the hands of the warfighter,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said in a Pentagon statement.
The launch took place at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Defense Department did not offer further details about the event, which represents the glide body’s second successful all-up round test this year.
Hypersonic systems can fly and maneuver at five times the speed of sound — and the Pentagon has been trying to field them for decades. The Army had planned to make a LRHW fielding decision by the end of fiscal 2023, but delayed that milestone after several aborted tests last year. The service now plans to make a fielding decision next year.
Doug Bush, the Army’s acquisition executive, told reporters this earlier this year that the all-up round test is critical to making sure the system is “safe and effective” and ready to field.
The Navy, meanwhile, plans to start fielding Conventional Prompt Strike on its Zumwalt-class destroyer in FY25 and its Virginia-class submarine in FY29.
Leidos is the prime contractor for the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, and Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for both LRHW and the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike program.
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Israel’s rampage through Gaza and land grabs in Palestine Lebanon and Syria are the actions of a rogue state that believes it is above international law — only sanctions can reign in its criminal behaviour. The decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister for war crimes and crimes against humanity must be a watershed moment.
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Governments across the world not only have a duty to defend and enforce those specific arrest warrants but, more broadly, to act in defence of our whole system of international law, which Israel is openly and repeatedly violating. The consequences of not doing so are enormous. It would not only give a green light to Israel to carry on its genocidal war against the people of Gaza and the Middle East but would also strike a huge blow to any rules-based international order. If Israel is allowed to continue violating international law with impunity, other states will be emboldened to do the same.
I will believe it when I see it .
“Prompt Strike”…where the fck do the Yanks get these dumb names? Sounds like someone getting hit in the a$$ in a gay bathhouse!… 🤣
Besides the “bestest baddest Mil’turry da whirld has evahh see’d” wont be getting “Prompt Strike” until 2029… by which time it’ll be ancient tech… and “promptly obliterated” by Russia’s latest… 😏
“Doug Bush, the Army’s acquisition executive, told reporters this earlier this year that the all-up round test is critical to making sure the system is “safe and effective” and ready to field”
“Safe and effective”… NO prizes for guessing where we’ve heard THAT one before!!
Are you at least BEGINNING to see why I call ’em DUMB Yanks???
LMFAO!!! 🤣
chinaman, you are the one right now could be
the one power to erradicate jewUS power with
your hypersound rockets since Putin is a coward .
waiting is wrong since it will awaken USscience
out of its slumber . the chance is yours chinaman !
all nazi scientists are dead now + cannot help US idiots.