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OpFires will leverage the ongoing DARPA/U.S. Air Force Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) program to demonstrate an unpowered hypersonic weapon that can be air-launched from existing platforms.
Lockheed Martin is under contract to conduct the first TBG flight test in fiscal 2019, but the new budget increases funding to $139 million, from $37.6 million in 2018, adds a second contractor and begins development of a variant of the weapon for vertical launch from U.S. Navy warships.
The DARPA/Air Force Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) air-launched cruise missile also is scheduled to enter flight-testing in fiscal 2019, with both Lockheed and Raytheon under contract to develop demonstrator vehicles.
Funding requested for HAWC by DARPA decreases in 2019, to $14.3 million, but this reflects an increase in Air Force funding, budget documents note. The hydrocarbon-fueled, scramjet-powered missile is a successor to the X-51A hypersonic engine demonstrator flown in 2010-13.
http://aviationweek.com/future-aero...nd-autonomy-boosted-2019-darpa-budget-request
Lockheed Martin is under contract to conduct the first TBG flight test in fiscal 2019, but the new budget increases funding to $139 million, from $37.6 million in 2018, adds a second contractor and begins development of a variant of the weapon for vertical launch from U.S. Navy warships.
The DARPA/Air Force Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) air-launched cruise missile also is scheduled to enter flight-testing in fiscal 2019, with both Lockheed and Raytheon under contract to develop demonstrator vehicles.
Funding requested for HAWC by DARPA decreases in 2019, to $14.3 million, but this reflects an increase in Air Force funding, budget documents note. The hydrocarbon-fueled, scramjet-powered missile is a successor to the X-51A hypersonic engine demonstrator flown in 2010-13.
http://aviationweek.com/future-aero...nd-autonomy-boosted-2019-darpa-budget-request
