Three years of development has resulted in an innovative design capable of countering existing and new hypersonic threats, Northrop Grumman said.
Northrop Grumman Corporation, in collaboration with the US Missile Defense Agency, began work on the creation of a hypersonic missile interceptor. The company’s press service reported this yesterday.
It is indicated that within the framework of the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program it is planned to create a missile to intercept a hypersonic block.
It is expected to be a “first-of-its-kind defensive measure against hypersonic missile threats.”
The report states that three years of corporate development has led to the creation of an innovative design capable of countering existing and new hypersonic threats.
It is planned to equip the ground-based and ship-based Aegis missile defense system with these missile defenses.
The corporation plans to continue to improve the initial GPI design, perform a demonstration of the system’s performance in hypersonic domains before the project’s initial demonstration, and then conduct flight tests.
Earlier, the media reported that the United States and Japan, as part of the GPI project, were jointly developing a new missile capable of intercepting hypersonic weapons. The development cost is estimated at more than $3 billion.
Let’s remember that in March the United States successfully tested the AGM-183 ARRW air-launched hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific Ocean.
Source: korrespondent
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