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Navy/USMC

Navy Eyes Second Flight Test For DoD Hypersonics Program

By Marc Selinger

Friday, April 13th, 2018

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Navy Eyes Second Flight Test For DoD Hypersonics Program

The U.S. Navy is preparing to conduct a second flight experiment of a hypersonic glide vehicle for the Department of Defense’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program, which aims to develop non-nuclear hypersonic weapons, according to a service official.The first flight experiment (CPS FE-1), which the Navy conducted Oct. 30 from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, “met all of our objectives,” said Vice Adm. Terry Benedict, director of the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP). “The results of that are…

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