"Mechanical Problem": Pentagon voiced the causes of failures with hypersonic weapons

According to the head of the US Army Procurement, the arc Bush army, the army has prepared a plan to eliminate problems with triggery, as well as a plan for further testing of LRHW hypersonic weapons. The head of the US Army Procurement Dug Bush told about the causes of failures of American hypersonic missiles. According to him, recent failures are guilty of "mechanical problems" with a starting installation, but the plan for their elimination is ready.

This was reported on December 3 at Breaking Defense. The Army and the United States Navy work in tandem on the creation of a high range hypersonic weapons (LRHW), which the Land Forces is called Dark Eagle. Over the past few years, the army has experienced a number of failures in the pre -start tests, which has had to shift the timing of commissioning from the end of September to the end of 2023. But after another unsuccessful test at the end of October, this purpose was canceled, wrote observers.

"This is definitely the problem of a launch vehicle. There is nothing new about it, it's just a mechanical problem," Bush said. The problem of the army, related to the starting installation, should seem to be a good news for the Navy, since the Deputy Minister of Defense of Pentagon on research and engineering issues Hidi Shius told reporters that the Navy program was not experiencing further difficulties.

However, Bush stated that the military met with representatives of Lockheed Martin, the integrator of data of weapons systems to develop a revised test plan. According to the official, the new plan involves the separation of trial tests and missiles, so delays with one of them will not slow down the other. The plan will also pay special attention to large -scale testing of individual components so that the army is convinced that the start -up problem has been eliminated.