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Defense against hypersonic weapons – HYDEF should reach a high level of maturity after just three years

Lars Hoffmann

December 15, 2023

With the signing of the European procurement organization OCCAR and Spanish Missile Systems (SMS) on October 31st to the contract for HYDEF - the acronym stands for Hypersonic Defense Interceptor Study - is the first European study to develop an endoatmospheric defense missile against hypersonics won in a tender threats have been launched.

Ziel der Studie ist, zunächst binnen 36 Monaten ein Abfangflugkörper-Konzept in einer Hypersonic-Defence-Architektur zu erarbeiten, das einen fortgeschrittenen technischen Reifegrad (Technology Readiness Level) von sechs nach weiteren drei Jahren einer Folgephase HYDEF erreichen soll.

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