U.S. Hypersonic Weapons Development -- News Roundup November 23, 2020

Artist's impression of hypersonic weapons. (Raytheon) 


This kind of technical focus seeks to build upon fast emerging progress in the area of autonomy. 

The Pentagon is looking to engineer self-guiding hypersonic weapons with emerging levels of autonomy to quickly adjust course in flight as needed, adapt to emerging targets, avoid defensive threats and accelerate the so-called “kill chain.”

Of course, humans would make the necessary command and control decisions when it comes to the use of lethal force, per existing Pentagon doctrine, yet enabling missiles traveling at hypersonic speeds to draw upon advanced sensors and guidance technology could, for instance, enable an attack to rapidly adjust to an enemy countermeasure, destroy an approaching interceptor or even alter its trajectory to avoid any impediments to attack. 

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 U.S. Hypersonic Weapons Development -- News Roundup November 23, 2020 

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