US shifts focus to hypersonic weapon countermeasures

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DARPA awards Boeing $70.5M to develop intercept technology

to DARPA, will see Boeing work on"quantifying aerodynamic jet interaction effects that result from DACS [divert and attitude control system] plumes and hypersonic air flows around an interceptor kill vehicle," while phase 1 saw the earlier contractors developing and demonstrating the DACS to"enable a kill vehicle to intercept hypersonic weapon threats," the research agency said.

to Boeing, it'll be performing"computational fluid dynamics analysis, wind tunnel testing and evaluation of aerodynamic jet interaction effects during flight tests," in line with DARPA's description of the phase's labors.bid solicitation, it seems more like Boeing will be gathering data on existing designs and concepts, which was backed up by company officials.

 

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