The United States will refuse to purchase hypersonic weapons from Lockheed Martin

The US Air Force (Air Force) does not intend to continue the ARRW hypersonic weapons program being developed by Lockheed Martin. About it writes Bloomberg, citing Air Force Acquisition Assistant Secretary Andrew Hunter’s report to the House Armed Services Subcommittee.

At the same time, Hunter said, the US military will conduct two more tests to collect data from the ARRW program. He did not name the reasons for refusing to cooperate with Lockheed Martin.

The agency notes that the US authorities give priority to the weapons of Raytheon Corporation, which is a competitor to Lockheed Martin. The publication connects the refusal of ARRW with an unsuccessful test of a hypersonic missile, which took place on March 13. The objective of the test was a comprehensive test of the characteristics of weapons.

Formerly at the US Department of Defense reportedthat they couldn’t get “the data they needed”. Bloomberg claims that the weapon’s data link was lost during the test.

On March 24, Defense News wrote that the B-52H Stratofortress bomber fired a “fully operational prototype projectile” manufactured by Lockheed Martin, but the success of the tests remained in doubt. The publication drew attention to the statement of the US Air Force, which said that “tests have achieved several goals”, the details were not specified. At the same time, in December, after the first launch, the US military reported that “all goals were achieved.”