A top U.S. Army official named Anduril as a potential supplier of hypersonic weapons on July 14 while explaining an emerging requirement for a high/low mix of exquisite and low-cost long-range missiles.
Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano, the Army’s program acquisition executive for Fires, named Anduril along with Castelion and Ursa Major as potential suppliers.
“I have to create greater magazine depth from a hypersonic perspective, and so that’s why we’re actively working with Castelion, we’re actively working with Anduril, and we’re actively working with Ursa Major to expand the scope of the number of hypersonic capabilities that we have in our inventory,” said Lozano, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Lozano’s remarks came two months after Anduril confirmed an Aviation Week report in March that the defense technology company had launched an internal hypersonic weapons development program. Anduril had three self-funded hypersonic payloads aboard a Rocket Lab launch that was announced on May 7.
The Army is courting startups and nontraditional defense companies to dramatically scale up production of hypersonic weapons within the next five years.
The Army previously confirmed links to Castelion’s Blackbeard ballistic and hypersonic missile variants, as well as Ursa Major’s rocket motor systems. Anduril had not previously identified a potential government customer for the hypersonic weapons and vehicles described in a series of job advertisements posted earlier this year.
Lozano’s goal now is to have a mix of exquisite and low-end capabilities. About 40% of the Army’s long-range missile stockpile should fall into the exquisite category, Lozano said. The remaining 60% should be low-cost alternative missiles.
“I want to be able to stand off at a very long distance and strike key command-and-control nodes. I want to be able to strike key radar sites. I want to be able to take out ballistic missile launch targets. I can do that with very exquisite GPS-denied capabilities, counter-electronic attack capabilities, [which is] a very highly capable, survivable weapon system,” Lozano said.
Lozano did not name the system, but the description resembles the capabilities of the Lockheed Martin Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, or Dark Eagle, program, which comes with a unit cost of tens of millions of dollars.
“Once I can do that, then I can start to close with the enemy and pummel the enemy with a lot of low-cost alternative munition that are much more affordable for me to procure and to build magazine depth with,” Lozano said.
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