Ursa Major pitches affordable HAVOC hypersonic missile for air, land and sea
Ursa Major has announced a new hypersonic weapon concept it calls the HAVOC Missile System, describing it as a medium-range design intended for production in larger quantities than other high-end hypersonic efforts and adaptable across air, land, and sea launch platforms.
HAVOC: scalable, cross-domain missile
The Colorado-based propulsion company says HAVOC is built around its Draper engine, a storable liquid rocket engine that can be throttled and restarted during flight. Ursa Major says that restart and throttle flexibility could enable different flight profiles compared to one-and-done solid motors and reduce some of the cost and design penalties associated with hypersonic thermal protection.
Ursa Major claims the missile can operate endo-atmospheric or exo-atmospheric and be paired with different boosters, with the stated aim of enabling integration on a broad set of launchers, including fighters and bombers, ground-based launchers, and shipboard vertical launch systems.
Ursa Major has not released concrete figures for range, speed, payload, or a customer-backed timeline. The company is circulating an aggressive unit-cost ambition, targeting an all-up-round price below $3 million.
“Mass” over exquisite weapons
HAVOC is the latest in a growing set of industry pitches aimed at bridging the gap between high-end long-range weapons and the need for deeper stockpiles, a theme also visible in lower-cost strike concepts such as Kratos’ Ragnarök cruise missile proposal. The post Ursa Major pitches affordable HAVOC hypersonic missile for air, land and sea appeared first on AeroTime.
Ursa Major has announced a new hypersonic weapon concept it calls the HAVOC Missile System, describing it as…
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