The Warzone/The Drive: American Hypersonic Weapons Could Shower Their Targets In Deadly Fragments
With advanced fragmentation warheads, the fast-flying weapons could destroy a group of disparate targets types arrayed over a finite area.
The U.S. military as a whole is pushing ahead as fast as I can to field hypersonic weapons, with it recently emerging that the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy were cooperating on the development of a single boost-glide vehicle design. But while there’s been much discussion about hypersonic vehicle shapes, as well as the means of accelerating them to five times the speed of sound or more, there’s been less public attention given to what sorts of warheads they might actually carry. Earlier in 2018, Northrop Grumman demonstrated a 50-pound design that it says could work particularly well with this new class of weapons.
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WNU Editor: The article is focused on conventional warheads, but I am sure the prospect of nuclear weapons being installed is also being discussed and explored.
