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HAWC seeks to develop and demonstrate technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile<\/strong><\/p>\n

DARPA and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) have announced the successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), ready for first free-flight testing later this year.<\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have each designed hypersonic missiles to achieve and sustain efficient hypersonic flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompleting the captive carry series of tests demonstrates both HAWC designs are ready for free flight,\u201d said Andrew \u201cTippy\u201d Knoedler, HAWC program manager in DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese tests provide us a large measure of confidence \u2013 already well informed by years of simulation and wind tunnel work \u2013 that gives us faith the unique design path we embarked on will provide unmatched capability to U.S. forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program is a joint DARPA\/U.S. Air Force (USAF) endeavor that “seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile,” according to DARPA<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The upcoming flight tests will focus on hydrocarbon scramjet-powered propulsion and thermal management techniques to enable prolonged hypersonic cruise, in addition to affordable system designs and manufacturing approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAWC seeks to develop and demonstrate technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[228,6,330,31,7,63],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-darpa","tag-defense","tag-hypersonic","tag-missile","tag-u-s","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DARPA-Hypersonic-Air-breathing-Weapon-Concept-HAWC.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1If","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}