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Missile Defense

Kratos Confirms Hypersonic Test Bed Uses Erinyes Vehicle

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

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Kratos Confirms Hypersonic Test Bed Uses Erinyes Vehicle

A Kratos Erinyes hypersonic test bed launch for the Missile Defense Agency's hypersonic test bed. (Photo: Kratos)

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] confirmed tests of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) hypersonic test bed have used its Erinyes vehicle. On Jan. 13 MDA conducted its second flight experiment of the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), in the Hypersonic Test Bed-2 (HTB-2) flight test from NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Va. (Defense Daily, Jan. 15). HTB is a glide vehicle meant to be a common platform to host experiments in hypersonic vehicles and targeting. In these initial tests it is…

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