The program next seeks 'wind tunnel and flight testing' to deal with coming hypersonic threats.
A U.S. military proposal to blast hypersonic weapons out of the sky is entering a new phase.
The program, a"hypersonic defense interceptor" system called Glide Breaker, aims to counteract highly maneuverable weapons zooming through the upper atmosphere at speeds of at least Mach 5. Now the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready for Phase 2 of the program, which was first announced in 2018.
A major goal of Phase 2 involves further developing a"divert and attitude control system" , which allows an"interceptor kill vehicle" to target hypersonic missiles in flight. The first phase did not consider effects such as hypersonic air flows, nor plumes from the control system, DARPA officials noted.
Participants in Phase 1 of the program included, at the least, Northrop Grumman (which received a contract valued at
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