Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) Hyper-Range Hypersonic Weapon Rocket (LRHW) will exceed 2775 kilometers, reports Breaking Defense, referring to a pentagon representative.
Edition discloses that the same indicator will be the Conventional Prompt Strike Rocket (CPS) of the US forces (Navy).
According to Breaking Defense, such a weapon placed in the Asia-Pacific region will be able to hit targets in Russia and China, which will become a “nightmare” for the latter. It is also allowed to accommodate in Europe.
In August 2020, the United States Army during an online briefing showed the launch, flight and target defeat with a rocket with a hypersonic planning unit COMMON HYPERSONIC GLIDE BODY (C-HGB).
The appropriate tests carried out by the naval forces (Navy) and the US Army took place in March of the same year.
According to open data, the C-HGB biconic design team as a combat equipment will receive promising American LRHW Army Hypersonic Rockets, CPS Navy and Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) US Air Force. For the first two accelerators there is a solid fuel medium of the All-Up Round (AUR). In the United States, they assure that C-HGB is capable of maneuvering at a speed of over 6100 kilometers per hour in an hour’s unpredictable for the enemy of the trajectory.