US navy (Navy) successfully experienced a solid fuel engine of the second stage of the Hypersonic Rocket Convention Prompt Strike (CPS), reports Breaking Defense.
Tests passed on Wednesday, August 25, promoter, Utah. The US Navy reports that testing the second stage passed after successful tests of the first and included verification of the operation of the thrust vector control system on a solid fuel rocket engine.
Tests of the first stage of CPS took place in May.
In August last year, the Army of the United States during the online briefing showed the launch, flight and defeat of the target rocket with a hypersonic planning unit Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB), which, except CPS, will also receive a Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon missile (LRHW). The tests conducted by the Navy and the US Army took place in March 2020.