Talk:Hypersonic weapon

Dubious revert
Hello you have reverted most of my edit without any explanation, as if it had been vandalism. Do you really think it was so very wrong to add to this list? Could you please explain why. --SI 12:50, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * DARPA Falcon Project (Hypersonic Weapon System)
 * Prompt Global Strike (Advanced Hypersonic Weapon)
 * Cruise missile


 * My apologies. I was making several changes and, when I looked at your edit, the diff highlighted the correction of the Avangaard spelling so I didn't notice the addition of those other entries too. I have restored them, ok? Andrew🐉(talk) 13:15, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Restructuring
This page could use some more additions, main areas of concern would be additional background + making the list a bit more expansive. I discuss this because the page would be extensively restructured by such an edit. Anthropophoca (talk) 06:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Hype
One of the references is Scientific American's Overhyped: The Physics and Hype of Hypersonic Weapons. Would it be reasonable to mention some about this? Gah4 (talk) 12:35, 21 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I think that would improve the article. 104.246.222.63 (talk) 18:33, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

V-2 rocket
I've removed the section for Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket, as its own Wikipedia article lists its maximum speed as 5,760 km/h, which is below mach-5, and thus not hypersonic. It was a very fast missile for its day, but it wasn't a hypersonic missile. -2003:CA:871C:DEB:AFE8:C123:13A3:CC0F (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

MBDA Aquila
According to this change, the MBDA Aquila should be added to the missile defense section. -- Iri1388 (talk) 07:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Content moved from United States Army Futures Command
I'm moving this text here from United States Army Futures Command; it doesn't belong there and may be of use here. PRRfan (talk) 13:57, 2 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hypersonic


 * Hypersonic: The US Army (August 2018) has no tested countermeasure for intercepting maneuverable hypersonic weapons platforms,In, for example Waverider hypersonic weapons delivery, China has flown a Mach 5.5 vehicle for 400 seconds, at 30 km altitude, demonstrating large-angle deviations from a ballistic trajectory, as well as recovery of the payload. See


 * 3 August 2018 China tests hypersonic aircraft Starry Sky-2 --Xingkong-2 (Starry-sky-2) first flight
 * China successfully tests first hypersonic aircraft that can .. Youtube clip XingKong-2 hypersonic aircraft (Starry Sky-2)
 * USSTRATCOM John Hyten statement 05:03, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * (15 Jun 2018) Lockheed Martin Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) Missile for US Air Force
 * Chris Martin (17 Dec 2019) Lockheed awards $81.5M contract for hypersonic missile motor to Rocketdyne for HCSW $81.5M, ARRW
 * NPR (23 October 2018) Nations Rush Ahead With Hypersonic Weapons Amid Arms Race Fear
 * DOV S. ZAKHEIM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR (08/26/19) Putin built a hypersonic arsenal, while the Pentagon slept
 * Colin Clark (19 June 2019)  Raytheon, Northrop Will 'Soon' Fly Hypersonic Cruise Missile Paris Air Show, new additive-process materials to build the combustor of a scramjet; potential integration among members of an intercommunicating swarm of hypersonics systemsCurrent test targets, such as Zombie Pathfinder are not hypersonic. ET-2 is a economical test replacement —Jason Cutshaw, SMDC  (13 Feb 2023) Army SMDC team launches economical target for missile tests Rand Corporation (28 September 2017) Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation estimates there is less than a decade to prevent Hypersonic Missile proliferation.  and in this case the problem is being addressed in a joint program of the entire Department of Defense.  The Army is participating in a joint program with the Navy and Air Force, to develop a hypersonic glide body, by mutual agreement between the respective secretaries In order to rapidly develop this capability, a dedicated program office was established,    in behalf of the joint services. A division of responsibility was agreed upon, with researchers who demonstrated hypersonic capability in 2011, teaching industrial vendors, to transfer the technology. Joint programs in hypersonic are informed by Army work;  however, at the strategic level, the bulk of the hypersonic work remains at the Joint level.   Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) is an Army priority, and also a DoD joint effort. The Army and Navy's Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) had a successful test of a prototype in March 2020. After the US realized that a catch-up effort was needed, billions of dollars were expended by 2020. A wind tunnel for testing hypersonic vehicles is being built at the Texas A&M University System' RELLIS Campus in Bryan, Texas (2019). The Army's Land-based Hypersonic Missile "is intended to have a range of 1,400 miles".  By adding rocket propulsion to a shell or glide body, the joint effort shaved five years off the likely fielding time for hypersonic weapon systems.
 * Countermeasures against hypersonic  will require sensor data fusion: both radar and infrared sensor tracking data will be required to capture the signature of a hypersonic vehicle in the atmosphere.    In 2021 the GAO counted 70 separate hypersonic projects, in both offense and defensive categories overseen by DoD's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, which oversees only research and development, and not DoD's Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment —DoD's acquisition and sustainment office, which do not need oversight until the hypersonic projects are ready for the acquisition phase.
 * By 2021, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) realized that it almost had a countermeasure to hypersonic boost-glide weapons, by using existing data on the adversary hypersonic systems which were gathered from existing US satellite and ground-based sensors. MDA then fed this data into its existing systems models, and concluded that the adversary hypersonic weapon's glide phase offered the best chance for MDA to intercept it. MDA next proffered a request for information (RFI) from the defense community for building interceptors (denoted the GPI —glide phase interceptor) against the glide phase of that hypersonic weapon. GPIs would be guided by Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensors (HBTSS). These GPI interceptors could first be offered to the Navy for Aegis to intercept using the C2BMC, and later to the Army for THAAD to intercept using §IBCS.

PRRfan (talk) 13:57, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Fattah 2
According to the Iranian officials fattah 2 is a hypersonic cruise missile! the English Medea has miss informed the public when they reported it as another ballistic missile. 88.236.65.96 (talk) 11:20, 22 November 2023 (UTC)


 * -- Iri1388 (talk) 19:21, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Iran
, you made this change and this one. I don't know Fattah (missile) is a hypersonic weapon or not, but the point is that Iranian officials insist that "Fattah-1" can maneuver at hypersonic speeds + I don't have enough information about Fattah-2. -- Iri1388 (talk) 02:10, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Yemen (Houthis) Now have a hypersonic missle
https://www.businessinsider.com/houthi-rebels-claim-fire-homemade-hypersonic-missile-first-time-iran-2024-6 108.48.90.132 (talk) 18:27, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * No, the Houthi's *claim* to have a hypersonic missile. What they have, is a missile that by all accounts appears to be a modified Fatteh, with no actual indication that it's hypersonic capable. Per that link you gave: Given the footage published by the Houthis, it is unlikely that the "Hatem-2" possesses that kind of advanced capability. "Hypersonic in this case is clearly a buzzword, trying to create hype," said Schiller. The newly announced munition is likely similar to the Fattah anti-ship missiles already fired by the Houthis several times, Schiller said. ⇒   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 19:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)