A Canceled US Army Supergun Is Back for the Hypersonic Era

The US Army has revived a giant cannon once intended for long-range strikes, this time to accelerate the development of hypersonic weapons.

During a recent live-fire demonstration, the service launched a hypersonic warhead from what appears to be the Heavy Artillery Test System (HATS), a test platform derived from the canceled Strategic Long Range Cannon program.

According to the army, the test capped a two-year effort to develop a faster and cheaper way of evaluating hypersonic technologies.

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