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I don’t think it particularly necessary. If one missile doesn’t do the job, use six. A b-52 can carry twenty AGM-158; a B-1 two dozen. That seems adequate for now. If the US needs something faster, the USAF has three different hypersonic programs that will reach IOC in three years. None of those have terminal guidance as far as a know, but if I were going to make an AGM-158C follow up, it would be based on one of the several hypersonic missiles entering service in the next several years.

[QUOTE="Josh_TN, post: 362442, member: 15394"] I don’t think it particularly necessary. If one missile doesn’t do the job, use six. A b-52 can carry twenty AGM-158; a B-1 two dozen. That seems adequate for now. If the US needs something faster, the USAF has three different hypersonic programs that will reach IOC in three years. None of those have terminal guidance as far as a know, but if I were going to make an AGM-158C follow up, it would be based on one of the several hypersonic missiles entering service in the next several years. [/QUOTE]

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