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US Air Force drops Lockheed hypersonic missile after failed tests
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force isn’t going to buy the hypersonic AGM-183A
Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon after the prototyping phase ends, following
problems during testing, the service’s acquisition chief told lawmakers Wednesday.
But the service will still finish the ARRW program’s last two all-up round test flights to collect data to help with
future hypersonic programs, Andrew Hunter told the House Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee in written testimony.
“While the Air Force does not currently intend to pursue follow-on procurement of ARRW once the prototyping program concludes, there is inherent benefit to completing the all-up round test flights to garner the learning and test data that will help inform future hypersonic programs,” Hunter wrote.
Hunter sounded the death knell for Lockheed Martin’s ARRW program a day after Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in another hearing that a March test had failed….
Kendall said Tuesday that the Air Force still wants to carry out two more ARRW tests with its remaining prototypes. But he told lawmakers that the service is more committed to its other major hypersonic weapon program, the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile.….