The US Navy has killed its next-generation hypersonic missile, slamming the brakes on a once-promising development program amid soaring costs, shaky performance and China’s growing arsenal.

This month, Naval News reported that the US Navy has terminated its Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive (HALO) missile initiative, originally part of the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 2 (OASuW Inc 2) program, citing insurmountable budgetary issues and underperformance.

The US Navy has killed its next-generation hypersonic missile, slamming the brakes on a once-promising development program amid soaring costs, shaky performance and China’s growing arsenal.

This month, Naval News reported that the US Navy has terminated its Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive (HALO) missile initiative, originally part of the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 2 (OASuW Inc 2) program, citing insurmountable budgetary issues and underperformance.

Rear Admiral Stephen Tedford, the US Navy’s program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons, confirmed the cancellation occurred in the autumn of 2024 after a fiscal analysis deemed the system financially and operationally unviable.

HALO was slated for “early operational capability” (EOC) by FY29 and “initial operational capability” by FY31, intending to counter high-value surface targets from standoff distances.

Instead, Lockheed Martin’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), a component of OASuW Increment 1, will undergo significant hardware and software upgrades to bolster precision and effectiveness.

https://asiatimes.com/2025/04/hollow-halo-u...ssile-program/#

Kesian fail to copy tongsan tech.

and they said they are the "best" military in the world kek

HALO is cancelled?!!! wadepak sony.

MAGA 404

Semi Velu : Yitu YouAss misti takut sama yinnih missil la...
krana hari yinnih tembakk... simalam dia sulah kina...

This post has been edited by soul78: Apr 22 2025, 10:37 PM

Sometimes i also suspect whether US military really that advanced. Even sanctioned Russia also able to make hypersonics. Is it all propaganda and only effective against terrorist and low tech country?

How many times you wanna copy paste the same paragraphs?

Halo died a long time ago.

Not Microsoft meh?

T'rump will save them using tariffs on hypersonic missiles!

later they will blame china for their failure.

time for china to lend them their mach 30 hypersonic wind tunnel if US ask nicely

Winnie: Look at that noob.

They don't really need it.

Existing stocks of missiles and bombs enough to bomb China three times over.

Hypersonic missiles is about speed. It's also going to be very effective against US carriers as its going to be very difficult to shoot them down due to the speed.

CCP hacked, stole the files. So US need to start again...

Source from some k/tards

Focus on Starcraft then

Yes, and US missiles won't be used against US carriers.

US got lots of options including LRASM which are effective against China carriers. Stealthy designs + jamming reduces detection ranges which also reduce engagement timing (same effect as hypersonics). They don't need hypersonics.

This post has been edited by takbodoh722: Apr 23 2025, 10:20 AM

Maybe they already have something better than sonic missile?

China also got equivalent to LRASM. It's called CJ-10 (also known as DH-10).

LRASM is a subsonic, stealthy cruise missile with advanced semi-autonomous guidance, while hypersonic weapons, like those in the HALO program, are designed for much higher speeds and maneuverability.