seruriermarshal
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Probably a Hypersonic target for Glide Breaker ? It need a new booster.Never even heard of that one. All the test needs is a booster to get the CHGB up to speed before it cuts it loose and you can use anything in the inventory that's powerful enough for that. And the various targets for BMD trials are probably in the right size and performance range.
If you're referring to "The booster stack used in the test was not part of the hypersonic program and is not related to the Common Hypersonic Glide Body." that's perfectly consistent with the C-HGB being under test, they just weren't lofting it with the booster planned for operational use. Most likely culprit would be whatever they're using for BMD testing (though not Black Sparrow as that's air-launched) as that's consistent with "The missile booster is used for testing purposes only."
For DARPA Glide Breaker ?