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Army

Officials: Hypervelocity Weapon Transitioning To Services This Year; New Army Missile Defense Strategy To Be Finished This Summer

Friday, January 26th, 2018

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Officials: Hypervelocity Weapon Transitioning To Services This Year; New Army Missile Defense Strategy To Be Finished This Summer

Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 missile, part of the Patriot air defense capability. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) expects to start transitioning the hypervelocity gun weapon system (HGWS) to the services over the next year, an official said last Thursday.Vincent Sabio, program manager for the HGWS program at SCO, said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event that the office is aiming to provide the Army and Navy with the pieces needed to transition the weapon. Although he was unwilling to detail how much time was between final…

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