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The Navy will integrate the round into a ship-launched capability, while the Army will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/08\/30\/heres-who-will-build-and-integrate-the-first-hypersonic-weapon-system-prototype\/\" target=\"_blank\">integrate it into a ground launcher.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has worked with <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\">Leidos\u2019 Dynetics for years to build the industrial base<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/army-modernization\/2020\/03\/20\/pentagons-major-hypersonic-glide-body-flight-test-deemed-success\/\" target=\"_blank\">Common Hypersonic Glide Body<\/a> that will be used by both the ground service and the Navy, as the domestic private sector has never built a hypersonic weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the heels of the Navy test, \u201cwhat we\u2019ve got to do is make sure we have a full end-to-end test as close to an operational test that is successful,\u201d Bush told reporters in a Pentagon briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army needs to have confidence \u201cit\u2019s safe and effective to actually put in a unit that might have to go to war,\u201d he said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had that test event yet where it\u2019s fully succeeded, but we\u2019re going to have, hopefully have,<b> <\/b>it this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the service is able to pull off a successful test, then it will be on track to field it to the first unit as an initial operational capability, according to Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army completed its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2021\/10\/07\/dark-eagle-has-landed-us-army-finishes-equipping-first-unit-with-hypersonic-capability-minus-the-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\"> delivery of the first hypersonic weapon capability<\/a> \u2014 minus the all-up rounds \u2014 to the 1st Multidomain Task Force 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade unit at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, two days ahead of its end-of-fiscal 2021 fielding deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hypersonic weapons are capable of flying faster than Mach 5 \u2014 or more than 3,836 miles per hour \u2014 and can maneuver between varying altitudes, making them difficult to detect. The C-HGB is made up of the weapon\u2019s warhead, guidance system, cabling and thermal protection shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. is in a race to field the capability and develop systems to defend against hypersonic missiles. China and Russia are actively developing and testing hypersonic weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August, Lt. Gen. Robert Rasch, Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office director, told Defense News in an exclusive interview at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, that the Army is \u201creally close\u201d to fielding the capability. But he cautioned that more testing remains before any decision is made on the future of its ground-launched hypersonic missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy\u2019s flight test of the industry-manufactured missile \u2014 which took place at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii in May \u2014 was highly anticipated as part of the joint development program following a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2022\/10\/14\/us-army-plans-two-more-tests-of-hypersonic-missile-ahead-of-fielding\/\" target=\"_blank\">failed or aborted tests of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army and Navy last year had to abort flight tests in March, October and November due to challenges at the range related not to the round but the process of firing up the missile for launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Missile development programs typically take about 10 years, Rasch stressed, and while the plan to field hypersonic missiles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/09\/18\/us-armys-dark-eagle-hypersonic-weapon-fielding-delayed-to-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">to a first unit has been delayed by over a year<\/a>, the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon program is only at the five-year mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure this capability works. 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