US Navy started developing a hypersonic halo for F/A-18 hypersonic rocket: what is known

Viewers write that the Halo system was conceived as an offensive anti -ship high -speed weapons for use on aircraft carriers. Similar AGM-158C LRASM Aviation Aircraft Aircraft is already in service with the US Navy, but it has a permeable speed. Although at first HALO is expected to install a US F/A-18E/F Super Hornet shock fighter, the Navy's management reported that it was already considering using other starting platforms.

Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface (Halo) hypersonic anti-ship's anti-ship, which is developed for the US Navy. Despite the defining Hypersonic marking, the rocket is likely to reach supersonic speed - up to 5 strokes (6 125 km per hour). This was stated by the Executive Director of the Unmanned Aviation Program and the shock weapons of contraradmiral Stephen Tedford. "From the speed of speed, hypersonic is a little wrong for Halo.

In fact, we are not so concerned about the speed of 5 sides. It is about distance and time - is it possible to close the range we need as soon as possible . . . At peak speed, the rocket will probably be in category 4+ Mach," Tedford said. According to him, the US military is already engaged in hypersonic air base missiles, but the Navy faced difficulties in terms of missile restrictions, taking into account the peculiarities of deck platforms.

"If you need to move the weapon along the loaded flight deck of the aircraft carrier with F/A-18, then it completely changes the equation of what you can place. This makes the hypersonic problem when you then limit its length and size, which is trying to solve the HALO program,"-explained contraradmiral. Earlier it was reported that the Pentagon has successfully completed a large-scale test under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (Mach-TB).