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Pentagon efforts to rapidly build hypersonic missiles to compete with similar systems of U.S. adversaries took a second hit last week after Russia reportedly used a hypersonic missile in a bomb strike against Ukraine.
"From the DoD's perspective, they're highly dependent on [Asia] for fabrication and packaging [of chips]," Hudson Institute's Bryan Clark tells Breaking Defense. This has led to DoD calls to address a "fragile and threatened" chip supply chain.
The Air Force wants to invest in state-of-the art, long-range weapons that are better-suited for operations in the Pacific. To do so, the service's 2022 budget cuts spending on the kinds of bombs it used to fight terrorist groups like ISIS. The Air Force will buy fewer Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs; Hellfire missiles; and small-diameter bombs as it prepares to invest in state-of-the art, long-range weapons that are better-suited for operations in the Pacific, according to its fiscal 2022 budget request. The service has requested $161 million to buy an initial production of 12 Air-la...
Despite the service shifting more resources toward the ARRW program last year, the missile failed its first flight test a few weeks ago.
US Army’s Controversial Ground-Based Hypersonic Missile to Have Over 1,700-Mile Range Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202105161082906278-us-armys-controversial-ground-based-hypersonic-missile-to-have-over-1700-mile-range/ The Pentagon has several hypersonic weapons programs currently in development in a bid to close the gap with Russia and China, both of which already have hypersonic missiles deployed. The ultra-fast weapons are capable of evading most methods of detection as well as interception. The US Army has let slip the range of its forthcoming ground-...