The AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic cruise missile, launched, for example, from the B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber of the US Air Force, is capable of hitting Moscow in less than 20 minutes, and reaching Beijing in half an hour, writes the Daily Express.
The British tabloid recalls that the flight tests of the above-mentioned missile, the claimed speed of which exceeds Mach 20, in the United States should take place in the near future. According to the publication, the development of the AGM-183A ARRW may mean that the United States is catching up with Russia in hypersonic technologies.
In November 2020, The Drive reported that the AGM-183A ARRW will fly at an average speed of Mach 6.5 to Mach 8 over a range of hundreds of kilometers, that is, a distance of 1,000 miles (more than 1,600 kilometers) the rocket will overcome it in 10-12 minutes.
In March of the same year, the American company Lockheed Martin showed an image of a promising" super-fast " (or hypersonic) missile system AGM-183A ARRW.
In June 2019, the B-52H Stratofortress made its first flight with the AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic aeroballistic missile.
Ivan Potapov
