USAF conducted its first successful hypersonic weapon test.

The hypersonic weapons have shown their abilities in Ukraine. Russian Kinzhal missiles are almost impossible to drop before they hit the target. The Chinese military also made successful operations and training with hypersonic weapons. Hypersonic weapons are the next-generation weapons.

Their purpose is to destroy large-size heavily defended targets and one target is the aircraft carrier. The speed of those weapons is 5+ times faster than the GAU-8 "Avenger" ammunition, and if a 1000 kg object hits a ship with speed Mach 6-9 that thing releases very high impact energy.

AGM-183ARRW is the response for the Kinzhal missile (above).

The term "hypersonic weapon" means a weapon whose speed is over Mach 5. That speed gives those weapons extremely high muzzle velocity and impact energy. That means that small-size hypersonic weapons can cause very bad damage even if there is no warhead. China and Russia are both ahead in this kind of weapon development. The USAF successfully AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). During a military exercise. The Air Force canceled the ARRW program a couple of years ago, and the weapon coming back.

The first mention of the Russian attempt to create hypersonic missiles was just after the Soviet collapse. The idea was that the missile or rocket would raise the hypersonic missile out from the atmosphere. Then that missile comes back into the atmosphere. And the hypersonic weapon starts to fly with a ramjet engine. In some versions, the ramjet-driven missile will jump out from the atmosphere and then dive back.

In some versions of those stories, the heavy Soyuz FG or Proton rocket carries a ramjet-driven missile to the orbiter with a heavy rocket. Then the point where that missile will dive back is very hard to predict. And the high-speed ammunition is a hard target for defense.

The thing is that the hypersonic missiles are not new things. The Nazi-German researchers created the first idea for that system. The idea was that the small shuttle would be launched to the orbiter or near the orbiter, and then that shuttle returned to the atmosphere. In that procedure, it releases 45 kilograms of hypersonic ammunition to the target. The name for that paper project was Silbervogel.

The railguns and hypersonic bullets are the next-generation weapons. In some models, the small shuttle will return to the atmosphere with a speed of Mach 5+. Then it opens fire with machine guns. The pressure cone is very dangerous at those speeds. And Russia developing hypersonic bullets that they can shoot from rifle-caliber weapons from tanks. That system makes those tanks superior to others.

https://www.dw.com/en/russias-hypersonic-missiles-what-you-need-to-know/a-61204404

https://theaviationist.com/2024/03/01/guam-hosts-hypersonic-weapon-training-with-live-arrw-missile/

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/05/17/usaf-air-launched-hypersonic-weapon/

https://www.twz.com/35530/check-out-this-b-52-stratofortress-carrying-two-agm-183-hypersonic-test-missiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-183_ARRW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbervogel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-FG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(rocket_family)

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