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final analysis of all flight “Lockheed Martin that these weapons could enable
test data, the service is continues to advance “responsive, long-range, strike
options against distant, defended,
pleased to report that the hypersonic strike capa- and/or time-critical threats [such as
ARRW rapid prototyping bility for the United road-mobile missiles] when other
program has a categori- States through this new forces are unavailable, denied
cal success to date,” contract,” access, or not preferred.”
Lt. Gen.White said. said Steve Layne, vice president of
Hypersonic Strike Weapon Systems Already in Service
at Lockheed Martin. “Early design
Lockheed Martin is also partner- Russia’s has already put into ser-
ing with the U.S. Navy to integrate work is already underway,” Layne vice its first regiment of Avangard
hypersonic strike capability onto added. hypersonic missiles.
surface ships. Last year, the U.S.
Navy awarded Lockheed Martin The United States has also col-
a contract worth more than US$2 laborated with Australia on the At the end of 2019 itself, Russia
billion, to integrate the conventional Hypersonic International Flight had announced that the country’s
Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) first hypersonic boost-glide vehicle
prompt strike (CPS) weapon system
onto ZUMWALT-class guided mis- program to develop hypersonic had become operational.
technologies.
sile destroyers. CPS is a hypersonic
boost-glide weapon system that Former Vice Chairman of the The Avangard is a strategic inter-
enables long range missile flight at continental ballistic missile system
speeds greater than Mach 5, with Joint Chiefs of Staff and former equipped with a hypersonic glide
Commander of U.S. Strategic
high survivability against enemy vehicle. According to open sources,
defenses. Command General John Hyten said the ‘breakthrough’ weapon was

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