Lockheed Martin reveal hypersonic weapon for F-35
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/SAS2019?src=hash
Is it just me or that looks like a hypersonic glider than a scramjet missile?
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Was anyone here around in the 80s? A-10s with these suckers would have been awesome.
crosshairs wrote:Was anyone here around in the 80s? A-10s with these suckers would have been awesome.
Go look up "hypervelocity missile" on Secret Projects. Still waiting to hear the tale of how they modified the XF-108 Rapier into a Vigilante, including using many of the Rapier's systems.
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madrat wrote:I really thought we'd see hypersonic weapons more akin to rocketpacks by now. INS with DU tips and delayed fuses. Hitting from 20km at Mach 5+ to crack concrete bunkers wide open on the cheap.
a small DU dart will be fairly ineffective against bunker
where is the air inlet?
The artist's conception of an F-35C firing a HAWC derivative first appeared at the Navy League's annual Sea, Air, Space convention just outside of Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2019. The rendering shows the stealth aircraft configured to carry two of these weapons externally, one under each wing. In April 2018, the U.S. Air Force, working together with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth approximately $928 million for the development of HAWC.
SpudmanWP wrote:There were two paths in development, Boost-Glide and Boost-Scramjet. This is the Boost-Glide version.
But HAWC stand for hyper sonic air breathing weapon concept, boost glide do not have an engine so i don't think they can be called air breathing
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Have the Navy considered slinging a SM-6 under the F-35 wing for near term anti-air and surface capability? They can get a Mach 3.5 missile with a range way greater than 250nm (this is the surface launched range) with some software tweaks i suppose.
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