The test brings the HAWC program to a close.
praising the program's success."Both of our HAWC flight tests launched from an operational aircraft and matched performance models and predictions to aid affordable, rapid development of future hypersonic weapons," Lockheed Martin vice president John Clark said in the statement.
Already, U.S. military officials are proclaiming the success of the HAWC program."This month's flight added an exclamation point to the most successful hypersonic airbreathing flight test program in US history," Walter Price, an Air Force deputy for the HAWC program, said in DARPA's statement."The things we've learned from HAWC will certainly enhance future U.S. Air Force capabilities.
The key technology being tested throughout the HAWC program is its air-breathing scramjet engine. A scramjet is a type of jet engine in which combustion takes place while the air passing through it is moving at supersonic speeds. Whereas typical jet engines use moving turbines to compress the air inside them, scramjets use their own geometry and speed to achieve this compression.
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