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Army Looks To Reduce Hypersonic Industry Costs, Official Outlines Supply Chain Issues

Army Looks To Reduce Hypersonic Industry Costs, Official Outlines Supply Chain Issues
The Navy and Army executed the launch of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, part of the LRHW, in a flight experiment from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii in March, 2020 (U.S. Navy Photo)

A U.S. Army official this week outlined where the service sees specific opportunities to lower costs for parts of hypersonic missiles and highlightedlimitations in the current supply chain. Dynetics [LDOS] has the Army contract to build the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) used by both the Army and Navy, which both services are integrating into their separate launching platforms. The Army aims to field their ground-based hypersonic weapon first, the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) by the end of this…

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