( Observer Network ) The Pentagon recently announced that the U.S. Navy and Army had tested a rocket from the beachfront launch pad of Virginia on the 26th local time, testing 12 hypersonic weapon parts, and said that all tests were successful.
According to Reuters , according to a statement from the U.S. Navy, Sandia National Laboratory conducted this test at NASA's More Wallops flight facilities in Virginia. The test evaluates the communication and navigation equipment of the hypersonic weapon , as well as advanced materials that can withstand high temperatures “in a real hypersonic environment.”
Hypersonic gliding aircraft are usually launched by rockets to the edge of the air layer, gliding to a predetermined loading point at more than five times the speed of sound, and then entering the atmosphere. By making the opponent unable to respond in time, the traditional missile interception mechanism is invalid. The report said the tests on the day were intended to verify new generation weapons systems such as the U.S. Navy’s conventional instant strike (CPS), as well as the Army’s long-range hypersonic weapons (LRHW).
Because the United States is currently "lagging behind" in the global competition for ultrasonic weapons, the Pentagon used sounding rocket (a smaller, therefore more economical test tool) to accelerate development to conduct hypersonic weapon parts tests to fill the key gap between ground testing and system-wide flight testing.
Source: Observer.com
