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The Air Force expects to achieve first flight of its Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) capability by the end of 2020, with a second capability coming six months later, the service’s acquisition leader said Feb. 6. “We are hoping for first flight of HCSW by the end of next year,” Will Roper, Air Force Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, said Wednesday at the Pentagon. Early operational capability would be achieved by the end of 2021, he…
