{"id":42648,"date":"2021-08-26T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/26\/us-navy-tests-second-stage-rocket-motor-for-hypersonic-weapon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:19:50","slug":"us-navy-tests-second-stage-rocket-motor-for-hypersonic-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2021\/08\/26\/us-navy-tests-second-stage-rocket-motor-for-hypersonic-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy tests second-stage rocket motor for hypersonic weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Navy has conducted a second-stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2021\/05\/27\/us-navy-conducts-first-live-fire-test-of-hypersonic-missile-motor\/\" target=\"_blank\">solid rocket motor test <\/a>for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/08\/30\/heres-who-will-build-and-integrate-the-first-hypersonic-weapon-system-prototype\/\" target=\"_blank\">hypersonic weapon in development<\/a>, the service announced Aug. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy deemed the Aug. 25 test in Promontory, Utah, a success, which included firing the first-stage rocket motor. The event also put the thrust vector control system on the missile booster to the test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2020\/08\/05\/heres-how-the-dod-plans-to-meet-its-ambitious-hypersonic-missile-test-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">another step toward the fielding<\/a> of a Navy and Army co-designed common hypersonic missile. The Navy and Army will each take the missile\u2019s glide body and tailor it for sea-launched and ground-launched use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army plans to field its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/06\/05\/coming-soon-to-the-us-army-combat-capable-hypersonic-and-laser-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\"> ground-launched Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon<\/a> by the end of fiscal 2023, and the Navy wants its ship-launched capability fielded in 2023 followed by a submarine-launched missile in 2024. The Air Force wants to field an air-launched version in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Navy is leading the design effort for the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2019\/10\/14\/how-the-us-army-is-building-a-hypersonic-weapons-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">Army is leading the production effort. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy previously tested the first-stage motor on May 27, with its industry partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/09\/17\/scoring-recent-development-contracts-lockheed-bets-on-hypersonic-missile-production\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lockheed Martin, <\/a>Northrop Grumman and Moog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2020\/10\/13\/us-developed-hypersonic-missile-hit-within-six-inches-of-target-army-secretary-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">successful test of the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/army-modernization\/2020\/03\/20\/pentagons-major-hypersonic-glide-body-flight-test-deemed-success\/\" target=\"_blank\">March 20, 2020.<\/a> While a second test is expected this year, it has been delayed from its original date in the third quarter of fiscal 2021 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2021\/08\/11\/next-flight-test-of-hypersonic-glide-body-expected-by-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">first quarter of fiscal 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weapon will be capable of flying five times the speed of sound \u2014 Mach 5 \u2014 and can maneuver at a variety of altitudes, making it difficult to detect with terrestrial-based radars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a matter of minutes, Navy and Army warfighters can defeat high-value targets hundreds or even thousands of miles 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