{"id":266997,"date":"2023-03-30T06:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266997"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:12:23","slug":"us-air-force-announces-failure-of-hypersonic-missile-test-comes-after-tasting-success-in-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266997","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Announces Failure Of Hypersonic Missile Test; Comes After Tasting Success In December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eurasian Times \u2013 March 28, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The latest test of US air-launched hypersonic missile was not successful, US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThose tests that we just conducted were not successful. We did not receive data from the tests that we needed,\u201d he said<\/a> at a congressional hearing.<\/p>\n

The test was conducted on March 13, when an AGM-183 ARRW missile was fired from a B-52H strategic bomber off the coast of California.<\/p>\n

Earlier in December,\u00a0 the US successfully tested a hypersonic air-to-ground missile prototype off the coast in California, reaching more than five times the speed of sound, according to US Air Force.<\/p>\n

\u201cA B-52H Stratofortress successfully released the first All-Up-Round AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon off the Southern California coast, December 9,\u201d the US Air Force said in a press release. \u201cFollowing the ARRW\u2019s separation from the aircraft, it reached hypersonic speeds greater than five times the speed of sound, completed its flight path, and detonated in the terminal area.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier, EurAsian Times had reported that the US Air Force had validated the loading functions for its first air-launched hypersonic missile from the B-52H aircraft at the Barksdale Air Force Base.<\/p>\n

The US Air Force\u2019s said the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, could be deployed by 2023, which now looks unlikely.<\/p>\n

The AGM-183A ARRW is a long-range hypersonic missile developed for the US Air Force. The weapon will dramatically enhance USAF\u2019s strike capability at stand-off ranges, allowing it to pound heavily fortified targets.<\/p>\n

The ARRW travels at five times the speed of sound, allowing the USAF to strike critical enemy targets at lightning speed and defy any missile defense system.<\/p>\n

The USAF noted that the development of hypersonic weapons was accelerated due to the National Defense Authentication Act section 804 Rapid Prototyping, which is part of the Rapid Fielding program. The program promotes rapid weapon development in specified instances.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a measure of America’s decline as a global military power. While Russia and China have had hypersonic weapons operational and deployed for several years now, the U.S. has yet to successfully complete tests on a prototype <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":267000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267001,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266997\/revisions\/267001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}