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Northrop And Raytheon Have Been Secretly Working On Scramjet Powered Hypersonic Missile
thedrive.com/the-war-zone ^ | June 18, 2019 | Joseph Trevithick

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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KEYWORDS: missile; northropgrumman; raytheon; weapons
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To: PIF
Any control surfaces would be ripped off at that speed. How do you steer a bullet?

In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that greatly exceeds the speed of sound, often stated as starting at speeds of Mach 5 and above.[1]

41 posted on 06/19/2019 7:39:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: null and void
Last week, I had the "Everything" thread on FR on my computer screen. I got up and went into the kitchen for a sammich, made a sammich and ate slowly, and came back to FR about 30 minutes later...and the same thread was at the top of the page.

Almost 30 minutes had passed (in the middle of the day) and no new threads had been posted.

Sum Ting Wong.

42 posted on 06/19/2019 7:39:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: momincombatboots

The strongest evidence in the universe, confirms there is no other intelligent life


Have you taken a survey of the universe and if so is that your conclusion? What evidence by the way?


43 posted on 06/19/2019 7:39:53 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: gibsonguy

“Well l guess not that secretly if we are reading about it here.”

Shhhh...keep your voice down


44 posted on 06/19/2019 7:40:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Vermont Lt
I wonder if particles moving at the speed of light could harm something moving 3500 miles per hour?

In sufficient quantity, and if they are coherent.

I understand there's a class of device that Amplifies Light by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation …

Perhaps that sort of thing could help you out.

45 posted on 06/19/2019 7:40:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Tenacious 1

Scramjets have been around for a while but this is the first one to utilize 3-D printing to manufacture the engine.


46 posted on 06/19/2019 7:41:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: RoosterRedux; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!


47 posted on 06/19/2019 7:42:21 AM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: taxcontrol

fast enough and long enough


Need to add: often enough - recycling and recharging take a lot of time at the moment so lasers are not a practical weapon yet. Power is a separate issue and only the Zumwalt and the Ford have the necessary power both of which are not combat ready and the Ford may never be.


48 posted on 06/19/2019 7:46:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: taxcontrol

It all comes down to detection and response. A hyper-sonic missile vs a wall of lead still ends up destroying the missile.

- -

I’d be a lot more confident if we hadn’t recently had two fatal incidents where U.S. warships failed to detect freighters that are about a city block long and move at about 24 knots.


49 posted on 06/19/2019 7:48:20 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FÂ’ CNN)
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To: PIF
My point is that the methods we know exist cannot do any of those things against a hypersonic missile - so target met toast.

We mere mortals don't know what the new methods of defense are, now do we?

50 posted on 06/19/2019 7:49:02 AM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: Flick Lives

LOL - yeah, do have a point!


51 posted on 06/19/2019 7:51:44 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: central_va
Any control surfaces would be ripped off at that speed.
Who said anything about control surfaces?

I'm re-posting full sized the graphic posted by gaijin. If you look at the last part of the graphic #4, you will learn that indeed they can be steered toward a moving target. Just they are not telling us how they actually do it.

52 posted on 06/19/2019 7:55:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: allendale
Here's a better question: which famous empire was defeated on a 1:1 basis against a class A adversary? Egypt? Greece? Rome? GB? The USA ...?

Great civilizations and empires are defeated from within, due to corruption, demographics and cultural failure.

However, while the USA still enjoys global reserve status, why not continue to run up $x billion annual budget deficits and an $x trillion balance in the national debt?

The name of the game is to ride the wild pony; check logic and common sense at the door. If the MIC wants to develop weapons systems and other fun playthings to feed their fantasy of regional kinetic conflict, who are we to disagree?

In the meantime, the clock is ticking against certain countries that so foolishly believe the false rhetoric that diversity is a strength. Which global adversary most definitely does NOT follow that program? Second question: would anyone be surprised that China is one of the chief culprits financing the demographic destruction of the USA?

Rome was finally defeated by the associated Germanic tribes decades/centuries after it began its terminal decline. Why waste resources against a vibrant enemy, when time will do most of the work for you? Osama was right, people favor the strong horse.

53 posted on 06/19/2019 7:57:18 AM PDT by semantic
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To: null and void

“Mere mortals” has nothing to do with it. And its called classified TS-CW SAP. So if you understand that, you would understand what I said.

If you use a fielded weapon, you are presumed to have been trained in its use, but not its manufacture. This is not a fielded (as far as we know) weapon - so everyone knows only what’s in the public realm.


54 posted on 06/19/2019 8:02:35 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: allendale
......futuristic defensive laser technologies that have not yet been designed, tested and deployed .......

You mean, like the laser systems that the navy has been testing for years, and plans to begin deploying this year?

55 posted on 06/19/2019 8:04:06 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: semantic

would anyone be surprised that China is one of the chief culprits financing the demographic destruction of the USA


Every time I mention that point it seems to fall on deaf ears or be answered by the Soros taunt.


56 posted on 06/19/2019 8:05:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Suit yerself, sport.


57 posted on 06/19/2019 8:06:48 AM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: null and void

When I was a kid (early 60’s), the Boy Scout magazine Boy’s Life published a serialization of a story about a light sail yacht race. Fun story.


58 posted on 06/19/2019 8:21:51 AM PDT by Pecos (My rights as an individual are not subject to a public vote.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Scramjet tests have all blowed up real good.


59 posted on 06/19/2019 8:50:50 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: Vermont Lt
I wonder if particles moving at the speed of light could harm something moving 3500 miles per hour?

They could -- IF you can detect it, switch your weapons to "active", and manage to get a targeting lock on the thing in time.

In the first few hours of a conflict, I'm thinking most CO's will not put their weapons on "automatic engage" until too late.

60 posted on 06/19/2019 8:52:12 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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