2023-07-25 10:39:30
The US Army has awarded Dynetics Technical Solutions a contract to develop C-HGB hypersonic blocks. The agreement was announced on the US Department of Defense’s official website.
what is known
The order value is 428 million dollars. Work is scheduled to be completed by July 23, 2027 and will be performed at the Dynetics facility in Alabama. The July 24, 2023 contract is an amendment to a more than $350 million contract signed in 2019.
The C-HGB or Common-Hypersonic Glide Body is a development of Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia National Laboratories). The bionic C-HGB glider was successfully tested in flight tests in 2011 and 2017.
In 2019, the US Army, Navy and Missile Defense Agency ordered 20 units of the C-HGB. In 2022, Dynetic shipped the first batch of versatile hypersonic warfare units to customers for further testing.
The C-HGB is a joint US Navy and US Army program. The project will allow armed forces to use the versatile projectile in their Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) hypersonic weapons.
The US Army commissioned the LRHW in the winter. Two launch pads with a combined salvo of four hypersonic missiles were moved to Cape Canaveral, Florida. LRHW was part of 1st Multi-Domain Task Force 5th Battalion, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment.
The hypersonic missile consists of a booster and a C-HGB glider that separates from the main unit and attacks the target. An LRWH battery includes four launchers with a total of eight missiles. The launch range is up to 2,775 kilometers.
The US Navy will equip the first Zumwalt-class destroyer with hypersonic weapons in the middle of this decade. Lockheed Martin has already received $1.2 billion for this purpose. In the future, hypersonic missiles will also be used in Virginia-class submarines.
Those: Pentagon
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