Pentagon Launching New Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) Technology

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*A top Warrior Maven article. Republished for viewer interest

By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

If there might actually be an emerging method through which to actually stop hypersonic missile attacks and succeed in efforts to establish an effective defense, it will likely rely heavily upon data sharing, high-speed data processing and AI.

The challenge is to of course not only establish a continuous track of an attack weapon moving more than five times the speed of sound but also implement a countermeasure whether it involved the deployment of an interceptor fast enough to achieve a kinetic “hit” of a hypersonic weapon or some method of “jamming” or disrupting the missile’s flight trajectory or air flow.

Any method would unquestionably rely upon the speed of information transmission, which is why the Pentagon, industry and the Missile Defense Agency are working on a number of program with which to establish a continuous track. 

When a missile traveling that fast passes from one radar “field of regard” to another, it could be lost in transition and therefore need to be reacquired. That is a process which can impede any continuous tracking and therefore complicate any effort to establish a track loop sufficient to destroy the attack.