Posted on 06/19/2019 5:58:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have revealed that they have been working together on a scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile, which uses an engine that is entirely 3D-printed. Their design is competing against one from Lockheed Martin under the Defense Advanced Research Project's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program, or HAWC.
The two companies publicly announced their partnership at the 2019 Paris Air Show on June 18, 2019, but they have been working together secretly for years on HAWC, according to Aviation Week. DARPA began the HAWC program in 2014, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
"We have a flight test planned for the near future where we will begin flying this particular class of weapon system," Tom Bussing, the Vice President of Raytheon's advanced missile system division, told reporters in Paris. "This weapon is fundamentally game-changing. There’s nothing like it."
Raytheon had revealed concept art of the missile ahead of the Paris Air Show. From what we can see so far, the design has a relatively typical layout for this weapon concept, with a rocket booster attached to the rear of the main scramjet-powered weapon. The booster motor will accelerate the missile to near hypersonic speed in order for the scramjet to work properly, before falling away.
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Always depends on the angles and numbers coming at you often in conjunction with other asymmetrical ordinance.
Sorry but once a surface capital ship is located. ( and there are many ways to locate and pinpoint track), a junior rating sitting in front of a console in a bunker outside of Shanghai can sink that ship as if he was playing a video game. In fact video game champions will be the new marksmen in any future war.
That said, it is possible that the tic-tac is a weapon the objective of which is not to destroy an enemy vessel, but to confuse an enemy into making him believe his systems are useless against it if (and when) it were directed to attack.
Just thinking out loud here.;-)
As were those in the 50s. The strongest evidence in the universe, confirms there is no other intelligent life. Dawkins talking about aliens seeding our planet with intelligent life is the world’s religious exaltation of man. Those aliens came from o th her aliens who seeded their planet ad nauseum.
Huh?
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Huh?
Several posters on this thread are the best proof yet...
Exactly. Not sure why the reveal. But Scramjet was a thing about 30 years ago. I expect there are some classified platforms using this tech already. (Maybe I hope, instead of expect)
I frickin’ hope so. We need to develop some new tech for $450 billion that can be sold to the Chinese by some s**thead for $60K.
Some of our greatest minds gone on a whim.
Not so sure about the rest of creation (i.e., on this plane/universe and otherwise).
Oh ... never mind ...
The encouraging news is that the Navy is working on a laser based defense system. If enough power can be put on the target fast enough and long enough, it will also be capable of destroying inbound attacks.
And so continues the cycle of attack and defense.
Some of our greatest minds gone on a whim.
Guess why FReepathons are nearly overlapping...
Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) work by focusing energy including laser, microwave, or particle beams, on the target. Laser and microwave DEWs have been demonstrated to be very effective but deployment has been kept secret (as it should be). In general they work either by creating localized heating (think microwave oven) or by creating EMP-type disruption to onboard electronics that results in a loss of control and failure of the target.
There are countermeasures to be sure but the potential to stop a target with a weapon that shoots at the speed of light vs. lead is a no-brainer.
They can be steered by sensors which is, for all practical purposes, the same thing. And the new stuff may could have some other form of guidance, but then we don’t know.
Makes little sense that the fielded versions would have no guidance or any ability to maneuver, especially since one version is being developed specifically for internal bay storage in fighter jets and another for the Navy.
My point is that the methods we know exist cannot do any of those things against a hypersonic missile - so target met toast.
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