Current US hypersonic weapons projects. (General)

DARPA Gambit

www.sandboxx.us

DARPA’S NEW MISSILE HINTS AT TRULY GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY

Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quietly unveiled a new high-speed missile program called Gambit. The program is meant to leverage a novel method of propulsion that could have far-reaching implications not just in terms of weapons development, but for high-speed...
www.sandboxx.us www.sandboxx.us
 
bobbymike said:
DARPA Gambit

www.sandboxx.us

DARPA’S NEW MISSILE HINTS AT TRULY GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY

Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quietly unveiled a new high-speed missile program called Gambit. The program is meant to leverage a novel method of propulsion that could have far-reaching implications not just in terms of weapons development, but for high-speed...
www.sandboxx.us www.sandboxx.us
Click to expand...
If the past is any indicator, DARPA will make one or two attempts to fly it. If it doesn't work (no matter the reason) cancelled. If it does work the DoD will stand there like morons with no idea what to do with it. Truly exciting stuff. /sarc
 
sferrin said:
If the past is any indicator, DARPA will make one or two attempts to fly it. If it doesn't work (no matter the reason) cancelled.
Click to expand...

What is it with the dod over the past few decades and the start/stop, start/stop, start/stop, start/stop approach to high-supersonic and hypersonic research?
 
NMaude said:
sferrin said:
If the past is any indicator, DARPA will make one or two attempts to fly it. If it doesn't work (no matter the reason) cancelled.
Click to expand...

What is it with the dod over the past few decades and the start/stop, start/stop, start/stop, start/stop approach to high-supersonic and hypersonic research?
Click to expand...
Not just hypersonics. 3 Seawolf SSNs, 190 F-22s, 21 B-2s, 3 Zumwalts. They get through the most expensive part (development) and then cancel the program. Zumwalt is exactly the hull we should be building now to replace the Ticos, but no. Instead we just let the Ticos rust into decrepitude.
 
www.navalnews.com

DARPA Updates on OpFires Hypersonic Missile Test - Naval News

In July 2022, Naval News reached out to DARPA for an update on their test firing of an Operational Fires (OpFires) hypersonic missile
www.navalnews.com www.navalnews.com
The DARPA Spokesperson also sent Naval News additional photos of the test fire at White Sands Missile Range.
OpFires_ET1_Launch_image2-1-683x1024.jpeg
 
indicisivedivide said:
bobbymike said:

Bath Iron Works to install large launch modules for hypersonic missiles on USS Zumwalt | Shephard

Large Missile Vertical Launch System launch modules would enable USS Zumwalt to fire anti-ship hypersonic missiles.
www.shephardmedia.com
Click to expand...
If only the Marines and Army would not have hijacked the the Zumwalt.
Click to expand...

I think that's an absolutely bizarre way to read the history of the Zumwalt class. The problem was about 95% Navy on the service end (maybe 5% Marines). The Army had zero impact at all.
 
Robert O. Work a former Undersecretary of the Navy served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense alongside three Secretaries of Defense spanning both the Obama and Trump administrations.

August 9, 2022

"Then came the DD-21, aka DD(X), aka DDG-1000 [Zumwalt]. The surface community knew that the 31-ship Spruance class was going to start decommissioning starting in 2005 (that was the plan, anyway). The community needed a plan to replace them. The community was also tired of taking a back seat behind the carrier and sub forces, a circumstance they were force to tolerate throughout the long Cold War. And it wanted to get in on the rapid halt mission. The arsenal ship was a conceptual start point. But the surface community wanted something even more exotic. So they called for a stealthy surface ship with deep magazines--missiles, or guns, or both. OSD was not the one pushing the stealth design. That was all Navy. And, in the end, the Navy designed a 15,000-ton battle cruiser with a hull that was literally too expensive to produce. The ship suffered the same technological overload at the Ford class, but the over-specing of the ship was all Navy, not OSD. Again, these were sins of the Navy."

From <http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2022/08/overspecd-overpriced-all-navy-bob-work.html#disqus_thread>

PS GAO-22-104655 April report "Increasing Supervisors of Shipbuilding Responsibility Could Help Improve Program Outcomes" noted that the CNO had to issue 29 Acceptance Trial Waivers and 18 Delivery Waivers for the second Zumwalt DDG- 1001 Michael Monsoor.
 
So basically the DD-21 suffered from an acute case of "Gold plating" during the design phase?
 
September 19, 2022. Not hypersonic but Navy's first step towards very high speed air to surface offensive missile.
"At Tailhook, Boeing unveiled for the first time a model of its hypersonic solid-fuel ramjet missile, previously called the Supersonic Propulsion Enabled Advanced Ramjet (SPEAR). Boeing plans the missile to be a flight demonstrator for the F/A-18. It was originally expected to fly in 2022, though the company did not provide an updated schedule."
https://aviationweek.com/shows-even...-us-navy-weapons-plan-favors-speed-over-range
 
Are there any publicly available photographs of the Supersonic Propulsion Enabled Advanced Ramjet?
 
new [HAWK?] placeholder images from NG site
 

Attachments

  • Hypersonics-Strike-Hero.jpg
    Hypersonics-Strike-Hero.jpg
    405.7 KB · Views: 68
  • PB_SIG~1.jpg
    PB_SIG~1.jpg
    147.4 KB · Views: 81

Attachments

  • f-18_missile_launch_1_-_comp_0084-2.jpg
    f-18_missile_launch_1_-_comp_0084-2.jpg
    72.6 KB · Views: 76
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $985,348,124 cost-plus-fixed-fee, with performance incentives, task order for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM). The task order provides for the HACM weapon system design, development and initial delivery through the performance of model-based critical design review, qualification, integration, manufacturing and testing. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by March 2027. This award is the result of a limited sources competition with three sources. Fiscal 2022 research and development funds in the amount of $100,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Armament Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA8656-22-F-A071).

www.defense.gov

Contracts for September 22, 2022

Today's Defense Department contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are now live on Defense.gov.
www.defense.gov
Click to expand...
 
bring_it_on said:
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $985,348,124 cost-plus-fixed-fee, with performance incentives, task order for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM). The task order provides for the HACM weapon system design, development and initial delivery through the performance of model-based critical design review, qualification, integration, manufacturing and testing. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by March 2027. This award is the result of a limited sources competition with three sources. Fiscal 2022 research and development funds in the amount of $100,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Armament Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA8656-22-F-A071).

www.defense.gov

Contracts for September 22, 2022

Today's Defense Department contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are now live on Defense.gov.
www.defense.gov
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Ok, here we go!
 

Similar threads

Please donate to support the forum.

Back
Top Bottom