{"id":9922,"date":"2022-05-06T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:57:16","slug":"hypervelocity-projectile-para-la-defensa-aerea-contra-misiles-de-crucero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"Hypervelocity Projectile para la defensa a\u00e9rea contra misiles de crucero"},"content":{"rendered":"

En la b\u00fasqueda de nuevos y m\u00e1s eficientes sistemas de Defensa A\u00e9rea & Misil\u00edstica, la US Air Force busca aprovechar el nivel de desarrollo alcanzado en el marco del Proyecto \u201cRAILGUN\u201d, actualmente cancelado por la US Navy. Se trata del Proyectil de Hipervelocidad, \u201cHypervelocity Projectile (HVP)\u201d, que mostr\u00f3 excelentes prestaciones,\u00a0 como para ser la munici\u00f3n que dispare el nuevo sistema en desarrollo, denominado\u00a0 \u201cHypersonic Ground Weapons System (HGWS)\u201d. Consistir\u00eda en un arma de artiller\u00eda autopropulsada a rueda, con excepcional movilidad y flexibilidad, cuyo prototipo se denomina \u201cMulti domain Artillery Cannon (MDAC)\u2018. Su objetivo es dotar de capacidad de Def A\u00e9 & Mis, a fuerzas aisladas y desplegadas en operaciones, para neutralizar la amenaza particularmente de misiles de crucero, que hoy proliferan en gran cantidad de pa\u00edses.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Air Force is asking for funds in its budget request for the 2023 Fiscal Year to build and test a prototype self-propelled gun designed to\u00a0shoot down incoming cruise missiles<\/a>. The service has presented the weapon, which could use\u00a0ammunition originally developed for<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. Navy’s\u00a0abortive railgun program<\/a>, primarily as a possible expeditionary base defense asset. However, it could have other applications, especially given renewed concerns about the threats that cruise missiles pose to\u00a0military and other critical targets<\/a>\u00a0within the United States.<\/p>\n

The Air Force’s proposed budget\u00a0for the 2023 Fiscal Year<\/a>\u00a0asks for almost $89.1 million to support various “lifecycle prototyping” activities, including the construction of “a\u00a0C-130<\/a>\u00a0transportable\/deployable Hypervelocity Ground Weapon System (HGWS) prototype.” It is unclear how much of that funding is expected to go to the HGWS effort specifically.<\/p>\n

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Details about the Hypervelocity Ground Weapon System, among other things, from a section of the Air Force’s 2023 Fiscal Year budget proposal covering various “lifecycle prototyping” efforts. USAF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Work to “integrate the system into an existing joint service battle management system, and test its effectiveness against incoming cruise missiles as part of a life [sic; live] fire experiment” are part of the Fiscal Year 2023 goals for the HGWS project, according to recently released Air Force budget documents. “The HGWS prototype will rapidly deploy to a remote location to understand the effectiveness of expeditionary operations.”<\/p>\n

The 2023 Fiscal Year budget proposal does not provide any additional specific details about what the Air Force’s requirements for the HGWS might be. However, the basic description of the weapon is virtually identical to a concept for a base defense system called the “Multi-Domain Artillery Cannon,” or MDAC, which the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) unveiled at the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference last year. At the conference, AFRL had also shown the computer-generated video, seen below, depicting how the MDAC might be employed in an operational scenario.<\/p>\n