PROJECT JAVELIN AIMS TO BUILD AUSTRALIAN HYPERSONIC MISSILE BY 2025

摘要

BAE Systems Australia has announced that it will increase its investment in Australia to 'support the rapid development of a sovereign high speed weapons capability.' BAE Systems says it will also draw on the wide-ranging capabilities and expertise across Australian industry and aca-demia to build an Australian high speed weapons eco-system with the aim of demonstrating a sovereign capability over the next four years. The company's "Project Javelin" builds on more than three decades of research by BAE Systems in the design and development of Australian weapons, autonomous and hypersonic technologies including the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, Nulka and the Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile (ASRAAM). BAE Systems has invested more than $11 million in hypersonics and high speed weapon research in Australia in the past decade in collaborative programs with Defence, industry and academia.