AFGSC to move forward with ARRW over DARPA's air-breathing hypersonic weapon

By Sara Sirota / April 9, 2020 at 1:40 PM
Air Force Global Strike Command has chosen the service's Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon as its hypersonic system of choice, rather than the scramjet-enabled prototype the military's experimental research agency has been developing. Like Air Combat Command, AFGSC is "in a similar place with ARRW being the thing we need to go and move out with," AFGSC Commander Gen. Timothy Ray told reporters during a Defense Writers Group phone call today. "We think we've got a good team plan going forward...

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