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Third Test Of The Air Force's Hypersonic Weapon Has Failed Like The Ones Before It
The Drive ^ | December 17, 2021 | Joseph Trevithick

Posted on 12/19/2021 10:36:23 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx

"The Air Force had hoped to conduct three successful tests of the AGM-183 this year so it could enter service in 2022.

The U.S. Air Force has failed for a third time to conduct a successful test of the rocket booster on a prototype AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile, or ARRW. This can only add to the palatable frustration within the service, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. military and in Congress, about the progress, or lack thereof, in the testing of various new hypersonic weapons.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Command's Armament Directorate confirmed to The War Zone today that another attempted ARRW flight test had failed on Dec. 15, 2021. The Air Force says that it has not yet determined the cause of the issue that led to the test being aborted. The prototype missile never left the wing of the B-52H bomber carrying it. ..."

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1 posted on 12/19/2021 10:36:23 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

No problem, Xiden can just ask Xi for help. After all communist China stole the idea from NASA anyway.


2 posted on 12/19/2021 10:36:32 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Too busy making sure everyone is using the correct pronouns.


3 posted on 12/19/2021 10:37:28 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

The hypersonic missile pronouns are he/hers, it can’t seem to stay on target.


4 posted on 12/19/2021 10:43:15 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Of course it did because our military is too busy being WOKE.


5 posted on 12/19/2021 10:46:36 PM PST by Singermom
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Maybe we should just buy them from the Chinese, they’ll sell us anything for a buck.


6 posted on 12/19/2021 10:50:06 PM PST by GaryCrow
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

You know what would be amazing? Some actual commentary on the technical difficulties, instead os the tired and predictable avalanche of woke burns.


7 posted on 12/19/2021 10:51:22 PM PST by steel_resolve (The Sleeper Must Awaken. )
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

It self-identified as the Hindenburg


8 posted on 12/19/2021 10:51:46 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

So China has a hpersonic missile, supersonic torpedo, rail gun, and we have none.


9 posted on 12/19/2021 10:53:24 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

“The prototype missile never left the wing of the B-52H bomber carrying it.”

Good Lord, we’ve been dropping things from Buff wings since before the X-15.

But the crews are well trained in anti-racism and the mischief white devils have caused throughout history.


10 posted on 12/19/2021 10:54:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

I trust the tests would have succeeded if the Trump administration was still in charge.


11 posted on 12/19/2021 10:58:21 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx
The Chinese and Russians have functional hypersonic weapons. The Russian versions are nuke capable. Meanwhile, NATO is getting in a pissing contest with the Russians by stating Ukraine will become part of NATO and actively moving 2,000 M1A1 tanks (NATO) into Ukraine. Putin might well provide a live proof of hypersonic nuke capability to US soil...an we couldn't do squat to stop it.
12 posted on 12/19/2021 10:58:51 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“The prototype missile never left the wing of the B-52H bomber carrying it.”

Back in the day when there were Old and Bold aviators


13 posted on 12/19/2021 11:27:52 PM PST by spokeshave (Get ahead by banning fossil fools, like McConnell, Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I'd been wondering since the previous failed releases: Is the problem mechanical, electronic, software? Sabotage? WTH?
14 posted on 12/19/2021 11:46:18 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

i know we are doing better with our laser weapons lately


15 posted on 12/20/2021 12:31:14 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

hopefully everyone involved had their covid shots!
/s


16 posted on 12/20/2021 12:33:44 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

We should just hack them back and take their sh!t the way they do to us on a regular basis.


17 posted on 12/20/2021 1:26:37 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

But we have a tranny admiral.


18 posted on 12/20/2021 1:40:09 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: steve86
I'd been wondering since the previous failed releases: Is the problem mechanical, electronic, software? Sabotage? WTH?

"Affirmative" action? Too busy taking CRT training?

19 posted on 12/20/2021 2:11:41 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

How much credibility do we give this “story”?

When the objective seems to keep up one scare after another scare? When the objective seems to demoralize us? When the objective is to give up fighting? Would the intelligence services want us to even accurately report we had a successful hypersonic missile?

According to Wikipedia the US has had a hypersonic two stage bumper rocket since 1949. Although perhaps we have not ramped up production of them. If so, why would we announce we have no such weapon successfully tested? Why would we trust what we’re being told about this when everything is a hoax?


20 posted on 12/20/2021 2:13:20 AM PST by WLusvardi
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