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The US Air Force AGM-183A air-launched rapid response weapon (ARRW) hypersonic missile has failed a test for the third time, according to a recent report by The Warzone.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Command’s Armament Directorate revealed that the prototype missile failed to detach from its B-52H bomber host due to an unknown error.

“On 15 Dec. 2021, the Department of the Air Force attempted a booster test flight of the AGM-183A ARRW from a B-52 Stratofortress,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Heath Collins told the media outlet. “The launch sequence was aborted before release with an unknown issue.”

He added that the missile system would be returned to the factory to analyze its telemetry and onboard data. He said that the service would resume testing the hypersonic weapon “as quickly as possible.”

In April, the inaugural test of the American hypersonic missile was unsuccessful due to an issue with the aircraft carrying it. Three months later, the weapon separated successfully from the B-52H bomber in a second flight test, but its rocket engine failed to ignite.

‘Not Satisfied’
The AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile is designed to propel to a designated altitude and release an unpowered hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, approaching targets at more than Mach 5.

The weapon has a high degree of maneuverability, rapidly changing course to make it extremely difficult for enemy forces to spot, track, and defend against.

The service had planned to conduct three booster tests this year. Air Force secretary Frank Kendall admitted that he is “not satisfied” with the pace of the missile development.

“We’re making some progress on the technology; I would like to see it be better,” he told Breaking Defense.

Retired Air Force Gen. John Hyten remarked that the service needs to be worried because the US has only conducted nine hypersonic missile tests, whereas China has already carried out “hundreds” of missile trials.

“Single digits vs hundreds is not a good place,” he said.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/12/20/us-hypersonic-missile-fails-trial/?fr=operanews

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea claimed Thursday to have conducted the second successful test flight of a hypersonic missile, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties.

Wednesday’s launch, the North’s first known weapons test in about two months, indicates the country will press ahead with plans to modernize its nuclear and missile arsenals rather than return to disarmament talks anytime soon.

The official Korean Central News Agency said the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party expressed “great satisfaction” at the results of the missile test, which was observed by leading weapons officials.

Hypersonic weapons, which fly at speeds in excess of Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, could pose crucial challenges to missile defense systems because of their speed and maneuverability. It’s unclear whether and how soon North Korea could manufacture such a high-tech missile, but it was among a wish-list of sophisticated military assets that Kim disclosed early last year, along with a multi-warhead missile, spy satellites, solid-fueled long-range missiles and underwater-launched nuclear missiles.

Wednesday’s test was the second of its kind since North Korea first launched a hypersonic missile last September.

“The successive successes in the test launches in the hypersonic missile sector have strategic significance in that they hasten a task for modernizing strategic armed force of the state,” a KCNA dispatch said.

The word “strategic” implies the missile is being developed to deliver nuclear weapons.

KCNA said the missile made a 120-kilometer-long (75 mile) lateral movement before hitting a target 700 kilometers (435 miles) away. It said the test reconfirmed the flight control and stability of the missile and verified its fuel capsule under the winter weather conditions.

While North Korea appears to have made progress in the development of a hypersonic missile, it still needs more test flights to determine whether it meets its tactical objectives or how advanced a hypersonic weapon it could develop, said Lee Choon Geun, an expert and honorary research fellow at South Korea’s Science and Technology Policy Institute.

A photo of the launch shows that the upper parts of the missiles launched in September and this week are slightly different. Lee said this suggests that North Korea is testing two versions of warheads for a missile still under development or it is actually developing two different types of hypersonic missiles.

He said the missile’s reported lateral movement would provide the weapon with a greater maneuverability to evade enemy missile defense systems.

Kim Dong-yub, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said North Korea will likely go ahead with its arms build-up plans without being affected by external factors like the Beijing Olympics in February, the South Korean presidential election in March and a possible change in the Biden administration’s North Korea policy.

“Given the U.S. has decided on a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, North Korea doesn’t have to worry about what China would think when it conducts” weapons tests, Kim said.

China is North Korea’s last major ally and aid benefactor. Some experts earlier predicted that North Korea would not launch any provocations until the Beijing Olympics ended.

The North’s latest launch was first detected by its neighbors.

The U.S. military called it a ballistic missile launch that “highlights the destabilizing impact of (North Korea’s) illicit weapons program," while South Korea and Japan expressed concerns or regrets over the launch. China, for its part, called for dialogue and said that “all parties concerned should keep in mind the big picture (and) be cautious with their words and actions.”

U.S.-led diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program remains stalled since 2019 due to disputes over international sanctions on the North. The Biden administration has repeatedly called for resuming the nuclear diplomacy “anywhere and at any time” without preconditions, but North Korea has argued the U.S. must first withdraw its hostility against it before any talks can restart.

During last week’s plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party, Kim Jong Un repeated his vow to expand his country’s military capabilities without publicly presenting any new positions on Washington and Seoul.

The North’s advancing nuclear arsenal is the core of Kim’s rule, and he’s called it “a powerful treasured sword” that thwarts potential U.S. aggressions. During his 10-year rule, he’s conducted an unusually large number of weapons tests to acquire an ability to launch nuclear strikes on the American mainland. But his country’s economy has faltered severely in the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sanctions and his government’s own mismanagement.

https://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-says-hypersonic-missile-235639315.html

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Skepticism From Chinese Military

China has already been using this method in aircraft and rocket production for two decades. However, the country’s military did not believe that this process could meet the extreme requirements for hypersonic flight.


File Image: Hypersonic Missile
This belief was held because unexpected gaps, gas bubbles, or polluting elements that could occur during the process have the potential to weaken the product.

Another challenge the scientists faced was to produce perfectly round grains of titanium powder in different sizes with rare earth elements. This was needed to ensure that the articles could bind perfectly with one another.

Making the mold was also difficult since there is a possibility of a steel canister passing some harmful elements into the component inside due to the high pressure.

SCMP reported that Yin and colleagues say that these problems have more or less already been resolved. They are now focusing on making improvements to allow the technology to be used for civilian purposes.

Innovative Air Inlet Production Method

The air inlet is designed to protect the engine’s body from turbulence which can extinguish burning fuel. This is one of the biggest and most significant components. However, this meter-long part has an irregular shape and is difficult to make.

It comprises several complex, delicate structures that have to remain strong in an extreme environment. It is also required that the component be lightweight. To achieve this lightness, the walls are made “no thicker than two credit cards.”

The process of building these inlets involves separate parts that are welded together and reprocessed. This is a time-consuming and expensive method with significantly varying quality outputs. Yin and his colleagues adopted a different approach, called the near-net-shaping hot isostatic pressing method.

The method involves putting a fine powder of titanium and rare earth elements into a mold made of steel. Air is pumped out of the steel mold and it is then put into an oven filled with inert gas. The gas is heated, leading to it expanding, thus compressing the mold. Consequently, the titanium particles are squeezed together. This leads to them being crystallized and merging into one another.

The team said that the complete inlet is made after about three hours of pressing. Additionally, they highlighted that no further processing is required as the surface is already smoothened. The team further stated that this method is four times more precise than previously used techniques.

A ‘Miracle’ Engine

The scientists behind the creation of the new hypersonic engine believe that it will help China quicken the pace of large-scale production of hypersonic weapons at a relatively low cost. The manufacturing process will not only lower expenses but will also be able to maintain high quality and performance.

The team also noted that the new manufacturing method allows them to make titanium alloy components. A laboratory test, as well as trials outside of labs, have found that titanium alloy components perform far better than those made using traditional methods.

These components can go “straight from the furnace to the engine assembly line without further processing”.
Yin Zhongwei and his colleagues with the Aerospace Research Institute of Materials and Processing Technology wrote that this breakthrough will “pave way for the development of more advanced components” for hypersonic flight in a paper that was published last week in the Chinese-language Journal of Propulsion Technology.

The Month Of Hypersonic Tech Success

On November 21, Global Times reported that China’s one-meter-class hypersonic aerodynamic wind tunnel, called the FL-64, passed major calibration tests. The tunnel was made by the Aerodynamics Research Institute under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC).

Its objective is to serve China’s aerospace strategy and support the development of hypersonic weapons and equipment. The tunnel’s success in the tests implies that the facility is officially capable of conducting tests for future projects.

Another major development was revealed at the start of this month when a senior US Space Force official revealed that China’s latest nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon system is orbital in nature. This indicates that the weapon system will be able to stay in space for a long period of time.

The Chinese hypersonic weapon, according to the official (Saltzman), has the ability to remain in orbit indefinitely unless the user decides against it. This unique technology also apparently employs a hypersonic glider capable of launching its own projectile to carry out a strike.

More recently, it was reported that a team of Chinese scientists has developed and tested a prototype hypersonic flight engine that is based on a design that was prepared by a Chinese-born US scientist around 20 years ago and was rejected by NASA. The scientist, Min Han Tang, had proposed the Two-Stage Vehicle (TSV) X-plane.

In this design, the aircraft is powered by two separate engines on its sides. This concept is unique as most hypersonic aircraft have their engine placed in the aircraft’s “belly”. The engines of this aircraft work as regular turbine engines at lower speeds. They have the ability to switch to high-speed mode as the aircraft attains hypersonic paces. Ming’s blueprint was declassified in 2011.

Professor Tan Huijun and his colleagues at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have developed and tested a prototype machine with two side-opening inlets, similar to Ming’s blueprint. Furthermore, China is building a 12,000 mph hypersonic plane that will be able to take up to 10 passengers anywhere in the world within an hour.

After these developments, China has now built a new engine for hypersonic weapons which the “military did not believe would work.”