Author Topic: Cruise Missile Becomes High-Priority USAF Project  (Read 185 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

rangerrebew

  • Guest
Cruise Missile Becomes High-Priority USAF Project
« on: October 15, 2020, 10:13:56 am »
Cruise Missile Becomes High-Priority USAF Project
Oct. 13, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen

The Air Force is moving forward with a new Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile as one of its top two hypersonic weapons programs, Weapons Program Executive Officer Brig. Gen. Heath Collins said in a recent interview.

The service has discussed similar efforts underway in its hypersonic portfolio but has not yet named HACM as a central project. In July 2019, Aviation Week reported on the existence of two classified hypersonic programs that use the acronyms HACM and HCCW, but said the Air Force would not divulge information about either.

Speaking to Air Force Magazine in September, Collins said HACM and the Air-Launched Rapid-Response Weapon prototype are “really the two big tickets that we’re looking at from a warfighter focus.”

https://www.airforcemag.com/hypersonic-attack-cruise-missile-becomes-high-priority-usaf-project/