ENGLISH comments on new US hypersonic missile | Foreign comments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a successful test of a hypersonic missile. DARPA said that unlike other hypersonic missile projects, which typically deliver a warhead into the upper atmosphere or even beyond it, from where it glides toward a target, the HAWC missile operates most effectively in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. In such conditions, speed and maneuverability are hampered, making it difficult to detect. In addition, according to the developers, the missile has significant kinetic energy even without high explosives.