The Defense Post
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is considering the use of the Air Intercept Missile (AIM) 174B “Gunslinger” air-to-air missile as a primary solution against hypersonic threats.
The strategy is part of the US government’s effort to conceptualize, produce, and review potential assets that can be integrated into other developmental hypersonic defense technologies.
Products from this effort are expected to deliver “wide area effect,” complementing existing and future weapon systems such as the RIM-161 Standard Missile-3, RIM-174 Standard Missile-6, and PAC-3 MSE.
