Air Force leaders seek quick introduction of hypersonic weapons to boost bomber aircraft long-range strike
ARRW is a boost-glide weapon, and the Air Force also is considering future scramjet-powered hypersonic missiles to add punch to bomber aircraft fleet.
Oct 1st, 2020
Arrw 1 Oct 2020
WASHINGTON – The head of Air Force Global Strike Command, Gen. Timothy Ray, wants to integrate the first hypersonic missiles onto the B-52 and B-1 bomber aircraft fleets “in the next couple of years.†Breaking Defense reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
1 Oct. 2020 -- Ray says the command needs to deploy the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) “soonest†— in part to beef up the capacity to undertake “dynamic force employment’ over far-flung theaters such as the Indo-Pacific.
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