American operational-tactical missile complexes will master the hypersound. Yesterday, January 10, the portal armyrecognition.com He announced that the US Department of Defense has signed a new contract with Lockheed Martin for the development of hypersonic tactical ground-based missiles.
Last year, Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control division demonstrated a rendering of a promising missile system that will carry hypersonic gliding LRHW units . The new contract is the third in the framework of the program for the creation of a ground-based mobile complex.
OpFires missile system
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With the signing of a new supplement worth $59 million, the working name of the program became known — it is called Operational Fires (OpFires). The key task of the new missile system will be to break through modern air defense systems and quickly defeat critical objects on enemy territory.
OpFires Launcher
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Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control indicate that they use a number of technologies for OpFires, which are used, in particular, in HIMARS systems. The new missiles will accelerate the LRHW units, after which they will hit enemy targets on an unpredictable trajectory at hypersonic speed, while remaining invulnerable to air defense systems.
