От Exeter
К В. Кашин
Дата 03.07.2003 15:48:34
Рубрики ВВС;

Вот про это подробно из JDW

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JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY - JULY 02, 2003

Pentagon eyes global strike system

Michael Sirak JDW Staff Reporter
Washington, DC


The US Department of Defense is to launch an ambitious programme to develop a reusable strike system that could attack targets anywhere on the globe within hours from bases in the continental US (CONUS) with substantial payloads of precision-guided munitions.
The US Air Force (USAF), which would operate the system, says it ultimately envisages an autonomous Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle (HCV) around 2025 that could operate like an aircraft from conventional runways within the CONUS and reach time-critical targets up to 9,000nm away within two hours with payloads up to 12,000 lb.
However, the USAF says it also wants to pursue an interim capability that could be available by about 2010 to complement its existing bomber force. This initial system would consist of an expendable small launch vehicle (SLV) that boosts an unpowered, manoeuvrable, atmospheric-re-entry shroud known as a Common Aero Vehicle ( CAV). The latter could deliver up to 1,000 lb of munitions to a range approaching 3,000nm against hardened and deeply buried targets or relocatable and moving assets.
To that end, the pending technology development effort, dubbed the Force Application and Launch from the CONUS (FALCON) programme, will be multi-phased to allow for the fielding of nearer-term capabilities while longer-term enhancements are pursued.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will lead the programme in co-operation with the USAF. While DARPA and air force officials declined an interview, the agency issued a draft solicitation on 17 June.
The USAF is considering many options for future long-range strike. Subsonic, supersonic, hypersonic, suborbital and orbital designs are under review and technologies are being pursued in each realm (Jane's Defence Weekly 4 June, 11 June). Each area has trade-offs and the service has yet to commit to any system.
A FALCON-like capability would offer the advantage of "free[ing] the US military from reliance on forward basing to enable it to react promptly and decisively to destabilising or threatening actions by hostile countries and terrorist organisations", according to the draft solicitation.
The programme's initial focus will be on demonstrating in flight the SLV and the CAV, the latter of which the USAF wants to have a delivery accuracy within 3m, according to the solicitation. Development of HCV technologies as well as an enhanced CAV will occur concurrently. The latter would offer a substantially greater range over the baseline CAV - up to 9,000nm - and improved manoeuvrability, according to the notice.
The notional programme schedule envisages the first CAV flight demonstration by mid-2006, with the initial SLV flight exercise about a year later. A flight of the enhanced CAV mated with an SLV could occur around late 2007. The first flight of a simple prototype demonstrating HCV technologies could occur around late 2009.
The USAF sees the SLV not only as a CAV delivery platform but also as a robust next-generation spacelift capability for placing small satellites affordably into orbit (JDW 12 March).

Иными словами, HCV - это не ракета, а именно многократная система-бомбардировщик.



С уважением, Exeter

От В. Кашин
К Exeter (03.07.2003 15:48:34)
Дата 03.07.2003 16:34:35

Тогда все становится понятно, спасибо (-)


От Андрей Сергеев
К В. Кашин (03.07.2003 16:34:35)
Дата 03.07.2003 17:26:22

Самое интересное, что и такое в 50-е предлагалось:)

Приветствую, уважаемый В. Кашин!

Правда с ЯСУ и свободнопадающими ядерными бомбами.

С уважением, А.Сергеев