AGM-183A ARRW
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2025
First Flight : March 2021
Total Production : ?
Model | Status | Year | Produced |
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AGM-183A ARRW | Cancelled | 2025 | ? |
AGM-183A ARRW
Group : Cruise Missiles
Status : Cancelled
Also Known As : Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Lockheed Martin
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2025
First Flight : March 2021
Total Production : ?
Development Cost : USD $480 million
Unitary Cost : USD $13.0 million
The AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (AARW) is a hypersonic strike weapon developed by the US Air Force (USAF) to counter the latest generation weapons developed by both China and Russia. The new weapon will consists of a rocket booster that will deliver a hypersonic glider warhead into high altitude and then the warhead will descend at speeds of up to Mach 20 to strike a ground target. The AGM-183A missile might be deployed by bombers such as B-1, B-2 and B-52 as well as the planned B-21. The USAF issued a development contract worth $480 million to Lockheed Martin in August 2018 to be completed in November 2021. The development contract is for designing, building and testing a prototype with the aim to deliver a functional weapon system by mid-2020s.
The AGM-183A program was dropped by the US Air Force in March 2023 after a series of failed tests. Development work was completed in March 2025 with the missile reaching speeds of up to Mach 20.
Operators
Country | Status | State | Notes |
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![]() | Cancelled | ? |
Specifications
Notes | ||
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Dimensions | ||
Diameter | 25.9 inch | |
Length | 232 inch | |
Mass | ||
Warhead | 150 pound | |
Weight | 5,000 pound | |
Performance | ||
Max Range | 900 kilometer | |
Speed | ||
Cruise Speed | 7 mach | |
Top Speed | 8 mach |
News

On March 17, the US Air Force successfully tested the AGM-183 ARRW hypersonic cruise missile. The Air Force statement noted that the tests were conducted from a B-52H
The missile couldn’t pass pre-flight checks, the US Department of Defense claimed A test flight on Wednesday of the US hypersonic weapon Dark Eagle, expected to become
The launch of the AGM-183A missile was made by a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, and is part of the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon program NEW YORK, December 12.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., May 17 2022 – The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully conducted a hypersonic-boosted flight test of the AGM-183A Air-launched
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The third test flight of the US AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) turned out to be a failure just as previous tests, and causes have
The Pentagon has several hypersonic weapons programs currently in development in a bid to close the gap with Russia and China, both of which already have hypersonic missiles deployed.
Tests of the American hypersonic missile as part of the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon project ended in failure.
A senior US Air Force official confirmed earlier this month that the forthcoming AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic missile will travel between
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 10, 2020 – The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully flight tested the second AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW)
The Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) program has been killed by the US Air Force as the service looks to make budget cuts in the area of hypersonic prototyping
Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $988,832,126 definitization modification (PZ0010) to previously-awarded contract FA8681-18-C-0021
The weapons on the bomber are able to move at 5-times the speed of sound, skip along the boundaries of the earth’s atmosphere and descend upon targets at lightning speed,
Photo Gallery
May 2022

US Air Force ARRW hypersonic weapon
Notes
State Latest Known holdings/Original Procurement
Com - Date of Commissioning
Decom - Date of Decommissioning
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