En el marco del Acuerdo de Cooperaci\u00f3n tripartito AUKUS,, que llevan adelante Australia – Reino Unido de Gran Breta\u00f1a (UK) y EEUU, la Subsecretaria de Defensa para Investigaci\u00f3n e Ingenier\u00eda Heidi Shyu expres\u00f3 en un comunicado: \u201cEstamos aumentando nuestra capacidad colectiva para desarrollar y entregar tecnolog\u00edas hipers\u00f3nicas ofensivas y defensivas a trav\u00e9s de una s\u00f3lida serie de pruebas y experimentos trilaterales que acelerar\u00e1n el desarrollo de conceptos hipers\u00f3nicos y tecnolog\u00edas habilitadoras cr\u00edticas\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon on Monday announced a new hypersonic testing partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom, an agreement focused on improving facilities and information sharing across the three countries.<\/p>\n
The partnership \u2014 dubbed the Hypersonic Flight Test and Experimentation project, or HyFliTE \u2014 will include up to six trilateral flight test campaigns set to occur by 2028. The intent is to increase the hypersonic testing cadence and leverage the three nations\u2019 combined funding, facilities and experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are increasing our collective ability to develop and deliver offensive and defensive hypersonic technologies through a robust series of trilateral tests and experiments that will accelerate the development of hypersonic concepts and critical enabling technologies,\u201d Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The agreement falls within the second pillar of the trilateral defense pact known as AUKUS, which is focused on technology sharing and advanced capability development. Last year, the Pentagon\u00a0announced a slew of joint exercises<\/a>\u00a0and prize challenges to boost collaboration in areas like autonomy and electronic warfare.<\/p>\n The announcement doesn\u2019t offer details on the upcoming test campaigns, but notes that those efforts will draw from a funding pool of $252 million.<\/p>\n HyFliTE will build on past test efforts between the U.S. and Australia, who have been conducting hypersonic research together for more than 15 years. In 2017, they culminated a secretive decade-long effort known as the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation, or HiFiRE. Through the program, they explored future high-speed weapons and subsystem designs and conducted a series of flight tests.<\/p>\n In 2020, the two nations launched a follow-on effort called the\u00a0Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment, or SCIFiRE<\/a>. The program aimed to develop a Mach 5 precision strike missile powered by an air-breathing scramjet engine that would be carried by a tactical fighter aircraft. That work has fed into the U.S. Air Force\u2019s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program.<\/p>\n