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Official Lays Out 2021 Hypersonic Weapon Glide Body Test Schedule, Industrial Transition

Thursday, August 6th, 2020

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Official Lays Out 2021 Hypersonic Weapon Glide Body Test Schedule, Industrial Transition

A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility during a Defense Department flight experiment, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020.

The Army’s top hypersonic weapon official this week laid out the Pentagon’s next year testing schedule for the hypersonic weapon glide body to prepare to field it by fiscal year 2023. "The flight test program is very aggressive and we need to be aggressive in order to keep on pace and really be competitive with our near peer competitors, namely Russia and China,” Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood, Director of Hypersonics, Directed Energy, Space, and Rapid Acquisition in the Army,…

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