DARPA Launches Next Phase Of Glide Breaker Program

DARPA Glide Breaker
Artist's concept of RGPWS.
Credit: DARPA
The second phase of DARPA’s Glide Breaker program will seek to conquer the problem of operating a divert and attitude control system (DACS) on a kill vehicle traveling at hypersonic speed within the atmosphere, the agency says in a newly released solicitation. DARPA launched the Glide Breaker...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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