By
Theresa Hitchens on February 25, 2021 at 5:40 PM
AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), Lockheed Martin image
WASHINGTON: Global Strike Command Head Gen. Timothy Ray is eyeing a new hypersonic cruise missile for the B-52 bomber the classified Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) now in development.
“Certainly, we’re in the in the conversation for the HACM as that gets developed,” he told reporters today in the margins of the Air Force Association’s annual winter meeting. “I’m not in a place where I can give you the dates and times. But as the Air Force looks at … how we continue to go down that path, I believe the HACM will give us an additional set of capabilities that will be both fitted for bombers and for fighter aircraft. So I think it’s a pretty special capability to keep our eye on.”