Third Hypersonic Booster Test Scrubbed With Last-Minute Glitch

U.S. Air Force officials will not know how the latest test failure of a hypersonic missile prototype will impact the schedule until an ongoing root cause investigation is completed, Brig. Gen. Heath Collins said on Aug. 4. Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force aborted an attempted boost test flight of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) on Dec. 15, service officials say. The aborted flight became the third unsuccessful attempt this year to test the new booster rocket developed for the AGM-183A, a...
Steve Trimble

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

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