The test of the “scramjet”-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, was the second successful flight test for the Raytheon-Northrop missile prototype and follows a flight test ...

Ballistic missiles are airborne ranged weapons which utilise projectile motion to deliver warheads from their launch site to ...

Several projects may bear fruit, including the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), a scramjet-powered missile without a warhead that uses its kinetic energy to take out targets.

Some noteworthy examples are Russia’s Avangard missiles, US’ HAWC (Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept), and China’s DF-Z. Also Read: ...

In a major policy shift, the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use the ballistic missiles within Russia. By John Ismay and Ephrat Livni Ukraine’s military used American-made ATACMS ...

Technology developed for the HAWC demonstrator was used to influence the design of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), a U.S. Air Force Program of Record to create a scramjet-powered ...

The HAWC program evaluated also another missile configuration designed by Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, which flew in September 2021 and July 2022. According to DARPA, ...

Hypersonic missiles are weapons capable of traveling at speeds of Mach 5 and beyond. The U.S. Air Force successfully tested and concluded its Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) missile ...

Although the HAWC programme has executed its final phase, data analysis continues and DARPA plans to advance maturation in the More Opportunities with HAWC (MOHAWC) effort by building and flying more ...

Another successful flight test was accomplished by the collaborative Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) of the US Air Force and DARPA. With its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, the Lockheed ...

The U.S. has successfully tested another hypersonic missile, bringing the military a step closer to having an operational version of the weapon in its arsenal.

DARPA announced the end of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program with a final successful test flight that reached speeds over Mach 5.