autotldr Bot , 10 months ago

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Airspace and maritime navigation warnings released to pilots and mariners suggest the US military might launch a hypersonic missile this week on a test flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

This test could be one of the final milestones before the US Army fields the nation’s first ground-based hypersonic weapon, which is more maneuverable and more difficult for an enemy to track and destroy than a conventional ballistic missile.

A few weeks later, the Army published a press release outlining “a full rehearsal of expeditionary hypersonic launch capabilities” at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station without mentioning the postponed test flight.

The LRHW, managed by the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, is the land-based component of the military’s effort to develop and deploy hypersonic missiles.

The Army and Navy programs will use an identical two-stage missile, which will jettison after depleting its rocket motors, freeing a hypersonic glide vehicle to steer toward a target and strike with little or no warning.

Vice Admiral Johnny Wolfe, director of the Navy’s strategic systems programs, told a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee earlier this year they have coordinated with the Space Force’s range at Cape Canaveral to “provide funding for infrastructure upgrades necessary to establish the first Atlantic hypersonic flight test corridor.”

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