Navy Mysteriously Cancels Plan To Arm Jets With “Screaming Arrow” Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile

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Navy Mysteriously Cancels Plan To Arm Jets With “Screaming Arrow” Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile

Three days after it was disclosed, the Navy’s scramjet-powered anti-ship missile program is apparently no more.
By Thomas Newdick March 5, 2021

    The War Zone
 

The latest in a seemingly endless line of U.S. hypersonic missile projects, which called for an air-breathing anti-ship weapon to arm the Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet multirole fighter, has been announced and promptly canceled. The service revealed earlier this week that it was beginning research into the scramjet-powered weapon as part of the Screaming Arrow Innovative Naval Prototype program, before announcing today it had axed the project — at least for now.

The original solicitation was posted online on March 2, in which the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Department for Aviation, Force Projection and Integrated Defense called for proposals for the development and testing of a hypersonic, air-breathing controlled test vehicle, or CTV, to be named Screaming Arrow. While the Navy said it hadn’t yet decided how fast it wanted the weapon to fly, hypersonic speed is generally defined as anything above Mach 5.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39620/navy-mysteriously-cancels-plan-to-arm-jets-with-screaming-arrow-hypersonic-anti-ship-weapon

[PeteS in CA]

The article headline is a serious over-statement, putting it kindly. The Navy posted an RFP - Request For Proposal - on 3/2. IOW, far from being an active development project, the Navy is asking for vendors to submit proposed products, and hasn't really decided what capabilities they want the product to have.