{"id":4387,"date":"2019-09-02T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2019-09-02T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:25:18","slug":"desarrollo-de-armas-hipersonicas-para-el-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=4387","title":{"rendered":"Desarrollo de armas hipers\u00f3nicas para el US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u><\/u>El US Army ha contratado importantes empresas de la Defensa como\u00a0<em>Lockheed Martin<\/em>\u00a0y\u00a0<em>Dynetics<\/em>, para el desarrollo de Armas Hipers\u00f3nicas del tipo \u201cBoost Glide\u201d, a fin de ser integradas en plataformas de lanzamiento terrestres, las \u00a0que deber\u00e1n estar en condiciones operativas en pocos a\u00f1os. Pero adem\u00e1s, el objetivo es disponer de un componente principal del sistema, en \u00e9ste caso el \u201cHypersonic Glide Body\u201d (Cabeza de combate del vector), que pueda ser de empleo com\u00fan en otras Fuerzas como la Armada o la Fuerza A\u00e9rea de ese pa\u00eds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/DTS-hypersonics-sonic-boom-concept-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"Dynetics Graphic\" width=\"343\" height=\"191\" \/>WASHINGTON: Yesterday, the Army awarded two key contracts to catch up to Russia and China in the race to field\u00a0battle-ready hypersonic missiles. After years of\u00a0one-off experimental prototypes, the US plans to produce and field actual weapons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dynetics won $351.6 million to build at least 20 Common Hypersonic Glide Bodies for both the Army and the Navy. Some components will go to the Air Force as well.<\/li>\n<li>Lockheed Martin won $347 million to integrate at least eight of those glide bodies with guidance systems, rocket boosters, protective canisters, and so on, arming a battery of four Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) launchers.<\/li>\n<li>Both contracts use Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to bypass much of the usual procurement bureaucracy and get the weapons to troops faster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, these weapons are still technically prototypes, since the Army expects to refine the design based on feedback from soldiers in the field. But the service\u2019s\u00a0rapid acquisitionchief, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood, has\u00a0said\u00a0the four-launcher battery will be an operational unit, focused on field tests and experiments but available for combat in a crisis by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Army, Navy, and Air Force are working closely together on hypersonics, so the Dynetics\u2019 contract, although awarded by the Army, will provide at least some components for all three services. The Marine Corps, as part of the Navy Department, doesn\u2019t have their own hypersonics acquisition program, but they\u2019re likely to end up using the Army\u2019s land-based version.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Dynetics is building the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB). That\u2019s the part of the missile that breaks off from the booster after launch and skips nimbly in and out of the atmosphere, maneuvering nimbly at Mach 5-plus. The idea is to combine the blistering speed of a ballistic missile with the agility of a cruise missile, defeating enemy missile defenses.<\/p>\n<p>The Army and Navy will use identical glide bodies \u2014 hence \u201ccommon\u201d \u2014 but the two services will integrate them with different booster rockets and packaging to meet the radically different demands of launching from a truck versus a submerged\u00a0submarine. The Air Force version, which has to fit on an aircraft and launch in flight, needs a different glide body, but it should still use 70 percent of the same components.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin\u2019s newly announced contract, by contrast, is solely for the Army\u2019s land-based version, the LRHW. That said, Lockheed already got a\u00a0$480 million contract with the Air Force\u00a0to build their variant, the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). And Lockheed has an ever larger contract,\u00a0$928 million, to build a different kind of hypersonic system, also for the Air Force, called the\u00a0Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon\u00a0(HCSW). That makes the aerospace titan \u2014 already the largest defense contractor on the planet \u2014 the leading company in this rapidly growing field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50358\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/MDO-convergence-Shot-2018-12-06-at-10.19.18-PM-300x113.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/MDO-convergence-Shot-2018-12-06-at-10.19.18-PM-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/MDO-convergence-Shot-2018-12-06-at-10.19.18-PM-768x289.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/MDO-convergence-Shot-2018-12-06-at-10.19.18-PM-1024x385.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/MDO-convergence-Shot-2018-12-06-at-10.19.18-PM-210x79.png 210w, https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/MDO-convergence-Shot-2018-12-06-at-10.19.18-PM.png 1137w\" alt=\"Army graphic\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Army Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While all three services are urgently fielding hypersonics, the Army is the one that\u2019s furthest outside its comfort zone. It hasn\u2019t had any weapon with such a long range since the Pershing II missile of the Cold War. But the Army fears its sister services won\u2019t be able to provide round-the-clock air support in a war with Russia or China, which have invested heavily in advanced anti-aircraft defenses.<\/p>\n<p>So the Army has decided it needs its own land-based weapons with ranges up to 1,400 miles. Such Long Range Precision Fires are the service\u2019s No. 1 modernization priority. When fielded, they\u2019ll be central to the service\u2019s new concept for high-tech, high-intensity warfare, Multi-Domain Battle, which envisions the Army expanding beyond traditional ground force vs. ground force battles to assist the other services in the air, sea, space, and cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>The Army\u2019s streamlined fielding of prototype hypersonic weapons is also just one example \u2014 albeit the most urgent one \u2014 of the service\u2019s attempt to overhaul its notoriously creaky acquisition system. Traditionally, the Army bureaucracy spent years refining formal requirements on paper and in PowerPoint, then laboriously developed a weapon to those rigid specifications, only to discover \u2014 if the drawn-out process didn\u2019t go so badly over budget and behind schedule it got cancelled \u2014 that real soldiers actually needed something different. Today, the newly created Army Futures Command pulls together experts from different bureaucratic fiefdoms to develop an imperfect but workable weapon as soon possible, then get it rapidly to real soldiers so they can give feedback on how to make it better.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated cycles of field-feedback-fix are supposed to get the Army the technology it needs on a budget and a schedule it can afford. Actually doing this, of course, is a tremendous challenge. The military doesn\u2019t just need\u00a0faster missiles: It also needs\u00a0faster bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2019\/08\/hypersonics-army-awards-699m-to-build-first-missiles-for-a-combat-unit\/?utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=76304063&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9iFHrD76OdQTASiefEjwy0CRLvez4IzxO4NHHNGWMVpNj84i5zfeCY8C78DtwjHTM-Sv3jlMplbrVLwhZf3QgIMqnQQw&amp;_hsmi=76304063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/breakingdefense.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El US Army ha contratado importantes empresas de la Defensa como\u00a0Lockheed Martin\u00a0y\u00a0Dynetics, para el desarrollo de Armas Hipers\u00f3nicas del tipo \u201cBoost Glide\u201d, a fin de&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}