US Air Force Hypersonic Weapon Test Fails Third Time In A Row

FILE PHOTO. A B-52H Stratofortress is pictured carrying an AGM-183A missile. © US Air Force / Giancarlo Casem  

The Drive/Warzone: Third Test Of The Air Force's Hypersonic Weapon Has Failed Like The Ones Before It 

The Air Force had hoped to conduct three successful tests of the AGM-183 this year so it could enter service in 2022. 

The U.S. Air Force has failed for a third time to conduct a successful test of the rocket booster on a prototype AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile, or ARRW. This can only add to the palatable frustration within the service, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. military and in Congress, about the progress, or lack thereof, in the testing of various new hypersonic weapons. 

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Command's Armament Directorate confirmed to The War Zone today that another attempted ARRW flight test had failed on Dec. 15, 2021. The Air Force says that it has not yet determined the cause of the issue that led to the test being aborted. The prototype missile never left the wing of the B-52H bomber carrying it. 

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Update: US hypersonic weapon test fails third time in a row (RT)  

WNU Editor: This contrasts with Russia that is now mass producing its hypersonic missiles .... Russia begins mass production of the Zircon hypersonic missile (PHOTO) (Russia Beyond).

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