Navy sets 2025 target for deploying conventional hypersonic strike weapon

By Jason Sherman / December 21, 2018 at 11:05 AM
The Navy's top officer has set 2025 as the the official target for fielding a sea-based, offensive hypersonic strike conventional weapon, giving the service about six years to adopt technologies -- including the hypersonic glide body developed as part of the Conventional Prompt Strike program -- for use in the U.S. military's submarine fleet. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson announced the objective as part of a modernization strategy revision, updating objectives set in 2016 to reflect the Trump...

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