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October 13, 2008
IWG Report 2007
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Fast Hawk
| Country: | United States of America |
|---|---|
| Length: | 6.50 m |
| Diameter: | 0.53 m |
| Launch Weight: | 1.00 kg |
| Status: | Cancelled |
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The Fast Hawk was an advanced technology demonstrator program considered by the U.S. Navy during the late 1990s. It was intended to be a wingless cruise missile that could carry a 315 kg payload to a range of 1,250 km, and then attack buried targets up to 12 m underground. The Fast Hawk would have been powered by a solid-propellant boost rocket in the launch phase and a ramjet motor that would cruise at Mach 4.0 in the midcourse phase. It was intended to be 4.2 m in length (6.5 m with the booster rocket), have a body diameter of 0.53 m, and a launch weight of around 1,550 kg. The missile would have been launched from standard Mk 41 vertical launch system canisters. In 1996, a three-year demonstration contract was awarded to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Centre and Rockwell International (now Boeing), but funding for the project terminated in 1999.(1)
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