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The Sprint was a two-stage, solid-fuel anti-ballistic missile (ABM), armed with a W66 enhanced-radiation thermonuclear warhead used by the United States Army during 1975–76. It was designed to intercept incoming reentry vehicles (RV) after they had descended below an altitude of about 60 kilometres (37 mi), where the thickening air stripped away any decoys or radar reflectors and exposed the ...
Operational Fires (abbreviated as OpFires) is a hypersonic ground-launched system developed by DARPA for the United States Armed Forces. [3] The system deploys a boost glide vehicle. The prime contractor for the program is Lockheed Martin. [4] The missile's range is thought to be up to 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers). [5]
In 2020, DARPA selected Northrop Grumman's subsidiary SpaceLogistics as its RSGS partner. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory designed and developed the RSGS robotic arm with DARPA funding. The robotic arm has completed key tests and is on track to be launched to GEO in 2024 by Northrop Grumman's 3000-kilogram spacecraft . [ 2 ]
DARPA plans to conduct testing at Point Loma, San Diego. [10] In November 2015, Raytheon delivered its Modular Scalable Sonar System (MS3) to be integrated onto the Leidos ACTUV. The MS3 is a fifth-generation hull-mounted sonar system that performs active and passive search and tracking, incoming torpedo warning, and small-object avoidance for ...
DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction. Some realistic references to DARPA in fiction are as "ARPA" in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (DARPA consults on a technical threat), [ 252 ] in episodes of television program The West Wing (the ARPA-DARPA distinction), the ...
In 1965, seven [24] HIBEX missiles were tested at WSMR, [25] and the first Sprint missile launch was at WSMR in November 1965. [26] Bell Telephone Laboratories [27] started the Multi-function Array Radar (MAR-I) construction at WSMR for Nike-X in March 1963. [28] MAR-1 was based on the ZAR, and was the basis for the Kwajalein Missile Site Radar.
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for American autonomous vehicles, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense.
DARPA Low Earth Technology development: 23 January 1992: Partial failure ... Sprint VMF Sub-orbital Technology demonstration: Within an hour of launch: Successful