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HAVOC Missile System
AURORA, Colorado—Ursa Major on Feb. 24 unveiled a new hypersonic missile designed to be produced at a large scale and with the potential to be used as both a weapon and a target.
Called the HAVOC Missile System, it uses the company’s Draper engine and will employ additive manufacturing to keep costs relatively low.
“Keeping pace with our adversaries requires more than exquisite systems. It requires speed to delivery, affordability, and the ability to build at scale,” Ursa Major CEO Chris Spagnoletti said in an announcement. “The Ursa Major HAVOC Missile System delivers a highly capable hypersonic weapon designed from the start to be produced rapidly and in quantity, giving the warfighter a credible and adaptable capability.”
The announcement was made at the Air and Space Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium here.
Ursa Major says the system is designed to throttle and restart through all its phases of flight, a design that can provide capabilities beyond current hypersonic boost glide and cruise missiles. It also means the missile does not need expensive thermal protection, the company says.
HAVOC can also operate endo- or exoatmospherically. A modular design allows it to integrate with different solid rocket motor boosters, enabling it to be launched from fighters, bombers, vertical launch systems or ground-based launchers.
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