{"id":6778,"date":"2021-02-28T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2021-03-17T01:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:59:23","slug":"pentagon-to-deploy-hypersonic-weapons-by-mid-2020s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pentagon-to-deploy-hypersonic-weapons-by-mid-2020s\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to deploy hypersonic weapons by mid-2020s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defense Department considers hypersonics as one of the highest priority areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military is aiming to field offensive hypersonic weapons by the early to mid-2020s, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department has identified the hypersonics as one of the highest priority modernization areas as Russia and China develop their own capable systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historically, the United States has been a world leader in hypersonics research and development but we have consistently made the decision not to transition to warfighting capability and warfighting systems in hypersonics,&#8221; said Mike White, principal director for hypersonics, office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>However, &#8220;great power&#8221; competitors, Russia and China, in particular, have aggressively pursued hypersonic technologies and capabilities, and are developing hypersonic systems and in fact-fielding weapon systems based on hypersonic capabilities, he said.<\/p>\n<p>To counter the threat, the DoD has developed a hypersonics modernization which consists of developing air, land, and sea-launched, conventionally-armed hypersonic strike weapons for the highly-survivable, long-range, time-critical defeat of maritime, coastal and inland targets.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy\u00a0also involves utilizing reusable, hypersonic systems for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike, as well as the first stage of a two-stage vehicle for rapid access to space and using comprehensive, layered-defeat of an adversary&#8217;s tactical hypersonic strike missile capability.<\/p>\n<p>For major phases of implementation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phase 1: Technology development and concept demonstration.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 2: Weapon system concept prototype development and demonstration.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 3: Accelerated fielding of prototype weapon system capability.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 4: Creation of acquisition programs and capability phasing plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We will deliver strike capability to the warfighter in the early-mid 2020s and a layered hypersonic defense capability \u2014 first terminal and then glide phase \u2014 in the mid-late 2020s. For reusable systems, our goal is to deliver capability in the early to mid-2030s,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersonic systems are able to travel on extended flights within the upper atmosphere \u2014 80,000 to 200,000 feet \u2014 at speeds near and above Mach 5, and they&#8217;re able to maneuver in hard-to-predict ways.<\/p>\n<p>The three-part DOD strategy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The first is related to fielding offensive hypersonic capability for maritime, air and land-based strikes against time-critical, heavily-defended, high-value targets by the early- to mid-2020s.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate the development and fielding of a layered system for defense against hypersonic systems in the mid-to-late-2020s.<\/li>\n<li>The third element of the strategy has to do with reusable hypersonic systems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Department considers hypersonics as one of the highest priority areas The U.S. military is aiming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6779,"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":[330,235,7],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-hypersonic","tag-technology","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rendering-of-an-AGM-183A-Air-launched-Rapid-Response-Weapon-ARRW-showing-its-hypersonic-glide-warhead.-Image-Credit-Lockheed-Martin.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}