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Home» News»General Atomics Supports Successful Test of Hypersonic Glide Body
U.S. Navy & U.S. Army Jointly Test Hypersonic Glide Body
A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility during a Defense Department flight experiment, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020. Photo By: Oscar Sosa, Navy

General Atomics Supports Successful Test of Hypersonic Glide Body

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) participated in the successful testing of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (CHGB) during joint flight test Flight Experiment 2 (FE-2) in support of the U.S. Army Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) and the U.S. Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) programs.

Xavier Vavasseur 25 Mar 2020

GA-EMS press release

This event was one in a series of tests slated to be conducted by the joint services. GA-EMS provided flight hardware and cables, flight software inputs and testing, test event training, data network infrastructure and data management.

“This is a national priority program and test events like FE-2 are important in demonstrating and validating hypersonic flight capabilities. We are proud to leverage our expertise in manufacturing highly complex systems, design analysis, and flight test planning and execution to demonstrate this critical technology successfully in an operational setting. We look forward to further advancing these capabilities for the nation to effectively address emerging threats on the battlefield.”


Scott Forney, president of GA-EMS

Since 2006, GA-EMS has been working with industry, government and the Departments of Defense and Energy to develop and test hypersonic weapons. Currently, GA-EMS is providing manufacturing, production, engineering and technical support to integrate, test, and evaluate CHGB and flight test vehicles through system and subsystem-level ground and flight test activities.

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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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