Posted on 10/13/2020 9:29:29 PM PDT by bitt
An Air Force Global Strike Command official has given us an indication of how fast the Air Force’s new Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon will fly.
The U.S. Air Force says the hypersonic boost-glide vehicle warhead in its forthcoming AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon hypersonic missile will fly at an average speed of between 5,000 and 6,000 miles per hour. This would be roughly between Mach 6.5 and Mach 8. At that speed, it will take only 10 to 12 minutes to strike targets 1,000 miles away. Air Force Major General Andrew Gebara, Air Force Global Strike Command’s (AFGSC) Director of Strategic Plans, Programs, and Requirements, disclosed the information in an interview with Air Force Magazine.
Expected to be the first hypersonic weapon to become operational with the U.S. military, the Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon, or ARRW, which is pronounced “arrow,” will be carried by the command’s B-52H strategic bombers.
“This thing is going to be able to go, in 10-12 minutes, almost 1,000 miles,” Gebara said in the interview, which you can read in full here. “It’s amazing.”
This appears to be the first time that the Air Force has officially commented on ARRW’s speed with any specificity. Before now, it was understood that the weapon would be capable of hypersonic speeds, which are simply defined as anything above Mach 5.
To attain hypersonic speeds, the missile consists of a solid-fuel rocket booster, fitted with pop-out tail fins, and an unpowered boost-glide vehicle. After being propelled to a specific speed and altitude atop the rocket booster, the wedge-shaped boost-glide vehicle continues to its target at hypersonic speed.
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Just don’t hit the ice cream freezer.
Just don’t hit the ice cream freezer.
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While the ice cream freezer is important - the coke a cola machine is huge.
Exactly, and we see this "advertising" often, which serves to incite enemies to further develop their own - in which the US is playing catch-up. Maybe this advertising is designed to do that and thus increase funding for defense industry, but it seems like those engaging in this advertising would have told the world about the Manhattan Project. Of course, maybe they figure the WaPO or NYT spy agencies would expose it anyway thru their liberal "unnamed anonymous officials."
Kawabunga dude!
That’s faster than a speeding bullet!
1000 miles in 12 minutes.
5 x 12 = 60 minutes
5 x 1000 = 5000
That’s 5000 miles per hour.
Some bullets travel at lesser velocities.
The ChiComs won’t even have a chance to push their buttons if we launch a pre-emptive strike.
Won Hung-Lo won’t like this at all!
“ However, you also need to take into consideration that China has a HUGE population of single men who will never, ever be married thanks to their one-child policy...”
When they see their once growing economy degrading the CCP is at more danger from those spoiled young men than we are.
Oh, did I put up that picture of Pelosi’s house on here?
Huh.
“Some bullets travel at lesser velocities.”
Virtually all of them do, other than rail guns, that is over 7,000 fps.
Yep!
It gives China & NK warning about the enormous tidal wave approaching them when Guam finally tips over from the extra weight of those arrow-carrying B-52's...
“ICBMs are actually easier to intercept these days”
Not really. Warhead tech evolves.
Very true, and the warhead tech has been significantly upgraded over the years. I have full faith that every last warhead would hit their targets.
Uh, my post #28 never mentioned anything about the “ease” of intercepting ICBMs. I was talking about the utter impracticality of 100 MT nukes, and the virtual impossibility of a rocket with several 100 MT MIRVs.
Virtually all of them do, other than rail guns, that is over 7,000 fps.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(You are 100% correct. I was too lazy to do the Math so I said “some.”)
Rifle bullets travel in the range of 3000 to 3500 fps, and this ARRW does 7000 fps. Its an extraordinary achievement of aeronautic engineering and materials engineering.
I can see why PDJT is saying, “ you wouldn’t BELIEVE the weapons our military has..... , “ at his rallies. The ARRW is one of the things he is referring to.
There is not a ship on the oceans surface that cannot be obliterated within 15 minutes, within any oceanic hemisphere of the earth. No wonder we have started a US Space Force, it makes eminent sense from a targeting perspective as we move forward with military high tech.
Thank you for your post, and accuracy.
They have the troops, true. But not the deployment capability.
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