Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa

Al Jazeera English – 17-3-2025

Far from being a tragedy for Africa, the demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the hands of President Donald Trump’s administration should be cause for celebration, argues Arikana Chihombori-Quao, the former ambassador of the African Union to the US.

Chihombori-Quao tells host Steve Clemons that USAID doesn’t have much to show for its decades of education and healthcare projects in Africa and often destabilised countries under the guise of environmental, human rights or social justice agendas.

And if the US is not interested in Africa, African leaders shouldn’t beg for better relations, she said. “It takes two to tango,” the former diplomat said.

Impact of Trump 2.0 on Southeast Asia’s Energy Geopolitics

Fulcrum.sg Published 3 Mar 2025 Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Trump’s rent-seeking foreign policy pertaining to energy and critical minerals will force Southeast Asian countries to do what they least desire: making a choice between China and the US.

The Trump administration’s insular and rent-seeking foreign policy will significantly alter the geopolitics of energy transition in Southeast Asia. This will manifest in two ways. First, the potential cessation of US involvement in the region’s energy sector will heighten fears of China’s dominance in energy infrastructure projects — including the ASEAN Power Grid (APG). Second, Trump’s intentions of using critical minerals as a bargaining chip for providing military assistance, if applied to the ASEAN region, will impact the regional vision for sustainable mineral development.

The shutting down of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an important player in the energy sector, will intensify existing fears of China’s dominance in electricity transmission and generation. As shown in Table 1, China provided approximately US$534 million in aid to the region’s energy sector in 2022, accounting for more than a quarter of the total share. Comparatively, the US provided only US$23.7 million, or 1 per cent of total energy-related aid to Southeast Asia. In addition, the China Southern Power Grid Company and State Grid Corporation of China own and operate significant portions of the national grids in Laos and the Philippines, respectively.

China Leads in Energy Aid

Table 1 Energy-related aid to Southeast Asia 2022 (excerpt) (USD, in %)

Donor Amount Contribution
China 534 million 26
ADB 368 million 18
Germany 274 million 13
Canada 231 million 11
South Korea 211 million 10
Japan 167 million 8
World Bank 90.0 million 4
EU Institutions 42.3 million 2
France 42.2 million 2
AIIB 34.8 million 2
United States 23.7 million 1

The table is modified from Lowy Institute’s (2024) Southeast Asia Aid Map.

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The National Security Imperative of USAID’s Food Security Programs

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As of today, the Trump Administration has paused two essential US global food security initiatives, Feed the Future and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). Created in reaction to the 2007-8 global food crisis and resulting instability, Feed the Future is a marquee US government food security program and tool for implementing the bipartisan Global Food Security Act, working in 20 countries to build a more resilient food system and supporting agricultural innovation at 17 US universities. Operating since 1985, FEWS NET provides rigorous analysis and forecasting of acute food insecurity to inform US and other humanitarian responses in 30 countries.

These programs make invaluable contributions to US national security and global stability. For example, Feed the Future builds resilience in five countries where the US National Intelligence Estimate on climate change assesses “building resilience…would probably be especially helpful in mitigating future risks to US interests.” In Central America, where drought during growing seasons has driven increased migration to the United States, Honduran Feed the Future beneficiaries report a 78% lower intent to migrate than the wider population. Meanwhile, FEWSNET’s data and analysis more quickly and efficiently direct US humanitarian support in reaction to conflict, economic shocks, and extreme weather, including in regions where the US military is deployed. 

Both programs have historically received consistent bipartisan support. Speaking at the launch of a new Feed the Future initiative last year, Senator John Boozman (R-AR) noted, “food security is national security.” Another Feed the Future supporter, Representative Tracey Mann (R-KS 1st District), has highlighted the value of his district’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab and stated that global food security programs have “an especially strong return on investment because they support American agriculture producers today, while greatly reducing the need for conflict or war-related dollars spent tomorrow” and are “a way to stop wars before they start.” As Executive Director of the World Food Program (2017-2023), former South Carolina Governor and Representative David Beasely testified to the Senate that “Investments in early warning systems like USAID’s Famine Early Warning System…allow humanitarian partners to project and respond in real time to potential emergencies….Without this capacity to forecast food insecurity, the cost of humanitarian intervention is much greater, both in dollars and lives lost.”

Last year, dozens of national security leaders, including the former commanders of Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), Africa Command (AFRICOM), and Central Command (CENTCOM), endorsed the Council on Strategic Risks’ The Feeding Resilience Plan: Safeguarding US National Security at the Crossroads of Food and Climate Change. The report makes recommendations to US policymakers to better anticipate, prevent, and respond to food- and climate-driven national security threats, including to:

  • “Support long-term resilience building in vulnerable countries by sustaining and expanding Feed the Future,” noting it and similar programs “bolster vulnerable countries’ ability to withstand food shocks and forestall security threats or need for costly US assistance,” and
  • “Expand on USAID’s FEWS NET to include longer-term food insecurity warnings” and to have security and defense agencies better “integrate FEWSNET projections with processes to forecast political instability and conflict.”

Amid multiplying threats from instability, extreme weather, and geopolitical competition, these recommendations remain critical today, and highlight the important national security benefits of capabilities like Feed the Future and FEWS NET.  

USAID Provides Critical Benefits to US National Security

Councilonstrategicrisks.org February 4, 2025

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The Trump Administration’s effort to try to shut down USAID and pause all foreign aid directly harms US national security, including by interrupting critical investments into resilience, adaptation, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding. In 2021, 79 senior national security leaders, including 8 retired 4-star generals and admirals, a former Director of National Intelligence, and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, signed the Challenge Accepted report, which argued that USAID investments in resilience and adaptation were critical to preventing instability and conflict and maintaining the US competitive edge with China. 

In the Indo-Pacific, USAID investments in disaster response and resilience pay dividends in strengthening relationships with allies and partners critical to that competition with China. Take Papua New Guinea as an example, where the US signed a new security pact in 2022, gaining exclusive access to develop and operate out of PNG bases. As Admiral Sam Locklear, former head of US INDOPACOM, and Erin Sikorsky, Director of CCS, wrote, “To sustain and maintain this presence, the United States will need access to reliable energy sources, clean, fresh water, and an economically vibrant, healthy local population.” Those functions are all supported by USAID efforts, such as the $3.5 million in disaster response funds the agency allocated to PNG in 2024. 

Meanwhile, in the Sahel region of Africa, USAID investments in climate adaptation and resilience help prevent extremist and terrorist group recruitment in communities affected by climate hazards.  For example, the Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) program funded by USAID aims to break cycles of crisis in the region that enable groups like Boko Haram and ISIS-W to thrive. AS US AFRICOM Commander Michael Langley noted in testimony to Congress, international aid and development programs “attack the roots of terrorism and tyranny more than bullets and air strikes ever will.”

Further, as we outlined in this article last week, USAID programs focused on agriculture resilience have helped curb irregular migration from Honduras to the United States by helping local farmers weather risk and stay in the country. Upstream investments before crises hit cost significantly less than waiting until such challenges become full-blown crises. 

The bottom line is that addressing critical, bipartisan national security priorities requires a robust 3D approach to US foreign policy—defense, diplomacy, and development. Anything less is short-sighted and puts the country at risk. CCS Advisory Board member and former commander of US Central Command General Anthony Zinni (USMC, Ret.) has endorsed CCS recommendations to expand USAID work on climate and food security. He said as Co-Chair of the US Global Leadership Coalition’s National Security Advisory Council, “a freeze on all U.S. foreign assistance – at a time when our rivals are playing to win – takes the U.S. off the playing field and diminishes U.S. strength around the world.”

Mỹ dẫn đầu 4 nước tập trận ở Biển Đông

ANTG – Thứ Hai, 22/04/2024, 11:21

Mỹ, Nhật Bản, Australia và Philippines đã tổ chức cuộc tập trận chung chính thức đầu tiên ở Biển Đông hôm 7/4. Các nhà lãnh đạo Mỹ, Nhật Bản, Philippines cũng đã tổ chức hội nghị thượng đỉnh 3 bên đầu tiên tại Washington vào ngày 11/4 và dự kiến sẽ công bố lịch tuần tra chung ở Biển Đông trong năm nay.

Theo báo cáo, cuộc tập trận này nhằm duy trì trật tự quốc tế, tự do hàng hải và hàng không trong khu vực Ấn Độ Dương – Thái Bình Dương, đồng thời sẽ giúp tăng cường khả năng tương tác của 4 nước trên các phương diện lý thuyết, chiến thuật và kỹ năng. Theo tin tổng hợp từ các nguồn tin như Bộ Quốc phòng Philippines và Đại sứ quán Nhật Bản tại Philippines, các yếu tố cơ bản của cuộc tập trận lần này gây được sự chú ý và có vẻ được thiết kế một cách cẩn thận.

Tổng thống Mỹ Joe Biden tiếp Tổng thống Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. và Thủ tướng Nhật Bản Fumio Kishida tại Nhà Trắng, ngày 11/4.
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‘Too big to fail’: How USAID’s $9.5B supply chain vision unraveled

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Ten years ago, USAID unveiled the largest contract in its history, aimed at transforming health supply chains in lower-income countries. It has not gone according to plan.

By Michael IgoeBen StocktonMisbah Khan // 09 November 2023

Illustration by: Michelle Kondrich for TBIJ/Devex

Within its first two years of operation, the largest-ever project funded by the United States Agency for International Development was in crisis.

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The $9.5 billion initiative is led by U.S. contractor Chemonics International. Its aim was to transform global health supply chains — the sprawling system of procurement and transport that delivers lifesaving products including HIV/AIDS drugs, mosquito nets, and contraceptives to millions around the globe.

The supply chain project serves as the backbone for the U.S. government’s most celebrated global health programs, including the HIV/AIDS initiative credited with saving 25 million lives. But this project aimed to go one step further, by improving supply chains in lower-income countries to the point that they could be managed by the countries themselves.

If successful, said one USAID official, the agency would never have to fund another project like it again. But a decade later, that has not come to pass.

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United States-Australia Joint Leaders’ StatementBuilding an Innovation Alliance

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We, President Biden and Prime Minister Albanese, inaugurated a new era of U.S.-Australia strategic cooperation during the Prime Minister’s Official Visit and State Dinner in Washington, D.C., today.  

Our nations are inseparably linked by our common democratic values and the three pillars of our alliance: defense, economic, and climate and clean energy cooperation. As our alliance cooperation reaches new heights, we are expanding our partnership into new domains to reflect the evolution of our relationship and the growing complexity of global and regional challenges. At the core of our cooperation is a shared commitment to a peaceful, open, stable, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. We reaffirm our commitment to work with Indo-Pacific partners and institutions to respond to shared challenges and ensure a region that is thriving, connected, resilient, and secure. These commitments are based on respect for international law, including as it pertains to the protection and promotion of human rights, and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states.

Today we announce the pursuit of new areas of cooperation on science and critical and emerging technologies so that we can build an “Innovation Alliance.” These initiatives will augment and complement our robust economic cooperation and trade; our foundational security and defense ties; our newly inaugurated cooperation on climate, critical minerals, and clean energy; and our enduring people-to-people connections.   

Steadfast in these values, we condemn in the strongest possible terms Hamas’ heinous terrorist attack on Israel. The terrorist actions of Hamas can have no justification, no legitimacy, and must be universally condemned. We call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. Hamas offers nothing but terror and bloodshed. It does not represent the Palestinian people, nor their legitimate needs and aspirations.

Our countries will support Israel as it defends itself and its people against such atrocities. We affirm Israel’s inherent right to defend itself. In doing so, in line with the values we share as democracies, we call on all parties to act consistent with the principles of international law and to protect civilians as an utmost priority. We are concerned at the humanitarian situation in Gaza and call on all actors to ensure the provision of humanitarian supplies to populations in need.

Our two countries support equal measures of dignity, freedom, and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians alike and we mourn every civilian life lost in this conflict. We continue to support Palestinian aspirations for a state of their own and consider a two-state solution as the best avenue towards a lasting peace.  

Promoting Advanced Technology and Space Cooperation

We welcome the announcement of a $3 billion investment in Australia by Microsoft, which will expand the company’s data center and Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Australia over the next two years, train more than 300,000 Australians with the skills required for a cloud and AI-enabled economy, and create the Microsoft-Australian Signals Directorate Cyber Shield to harden Australia from cyber-threats to individuals, businesses, and governments. We also welcome the close partnership between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), including bilateral cooperation through the NSF’s Global Centers initiative with up to $16.3 million for climate and clean energy research, and an AI partnership supported by a combined $6.2 million in grants to drive ground-breaking research. Additionally, the development of a Memorandum of Understanding between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Australian National University intends to strengthen cooperation in research and education between the United States and Australia.

Our focus on innovation also extends to space, where we look forward to tomorrow’s signing of a space Technology Safeguards Agreement that creates the potential for new space-related commercial opportunities while providing the legal and technical framework to protect sensitive U.S. space launch technology and data in Australia consistent with our shared non-proliferation goals. We also welcome progress in negotiations of a bilateral space framework agreement, and encourage further joint commercial investment across all sectors, including space situational awareness and commercial space stations.

Building Clean Energy Supply Chains and Addressing the Climate Crisis

In May, we launched the historic Australia-United States Climate, Critical Minerals, and Clean Energy Transformation Compact (the Compact), which affirmed our shared determination to make climate and clean energy cooperation the third pillar of our alliance and counter the threat to global security and prosperity posed by climate change. We recognize that achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will require rapid deployment of clean energy and decarbonization technologies, and increased electrification in our countries this decade, alongside the phasedown of unabated coal power.

Under the Compact, we convened the ministerial-level United States-Australia Clean Energy Dialogue between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Australia’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. As part of our enhanced cooperation, we plan to collaborate on clean energy supply chains with the intent to leverage our comparative advantages and sovereign capabilities, beginning with a battery supply chain working group to explore the deepening of both countries’ manufacturing capability and work on battery technology research and development. We also announced our intention for a Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and Australian entities. Australia and the U.S. DOE intend to establish the Australia-United States Clean Energy Industry Council, which will draw on the expertise of business and public finance leaders to advise our governments on clean energy industry development and cooperation.   

Recognizing that climate change poses the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and wellbeing of people and ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific, we announce today that the United States and Australia are working to jointly develop an Indo-Pacific Net-Zero Transition bond series to mobilize funding for small-medium sized enterprises with a focus on clean energy transition.

The United States and Australia intend to work to enhance access to the resources of the Green Climate Fund, and other relevant multilateral funds, especially for those most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, including least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS). This effort will be advanced, including through targeted bilateral technical assistance from USAID to LDCs and SIDS, and in coordination with DFAT’s program of support to Pacific Island countries

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Which Countries Receive the Most Foreign Aid from the U.S.?

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Which Countries Receive the Most Foreign Aid From the U.S.?

The United States provided more than $50 billion in aid to over 150 countries and territories, regional funds, and NGOs in 2021.

Each year, Congress appropriates foreign assistance based on national security, commercial, and humanitarian interests.

In this map, USAFacts uses data from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to highlight the countries that received the largest portion of aid.

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In 2021, the U.S. directed its aid towards nations grappling with internal conflicts and humanitarian crises.

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Tiếng nói chung của thế giới về Biển Đông

Biên Phòng – Thanh Trúc 26/09/2021 – 14:13

Mới đây, Mỹ và Australia đã tiến hành cuộc tham vấn thường niên theo cơ chế “2+2” lần thứ 31, trong đó nhấn mạnh tới những quan ngại về Biển Đông, cũng như đề cao việc thượng tôn luật pháp quốc tế, bao gồm Công ước Liên hợp quốc về Luật Biển năm 1982 (UNCLOS).

(Từ trái qua phải) Bộ trưởng Quốc phòng Australia Peter Dutton, Ngoại trưởng Australia Marise Payne, Ngoại trưởng Mỹ Anthony Blinken, Bộ trưởng Quốc phòng Mỹ Lloyd Austin trong cuộc gặp tại Thủ đô Washington, Mỹ trong tuần trước. Ảnh: REUTERS

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Mười điều rút ra từ sự ra đời của Liên minh AUKUS

Nghiên cứu quốc tế –

Tác giả: Hoàng Anh Tuấn

Hiệp định Đối tác tăng cường an ninh ba bên giữa Mỹ, Anh và Australia (AUKUS) có phiên âm khá thú vị (ô kis) – “Hôn nhau cái nào” – đến mức Tổng thống Biden cũng cảm thấy thích thú khi phát âm tên liên minh mới trong bài diễn văn đánh dấu sự ra đời của AUKUS.

Tuy nhiên, việc thành lập AUKUS thì hoàn toàn nghiêm túc, chẳng “lãng mạn” chút nào, và là kết quả của những nỗ lực thương lượng không ngừng nghỉ trong nhiều tháng trước đó của quan chức cấp cao 3 nước, trước khi AUKUS chính thức ra đời ngày 15/9/2021 vừa qua.

Tạm thời có thể rút ra 10 nhận xét nhanh từ sự ra đời của AUKUS như sau:

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USAID tập huấn cách sử dụng điện thoại di động để hoạt động chi trả phí bảo vệ rừng minh bạch, an toàn và nhanh chóng hơn

USAID – Thứ Sáu, 9 October, 2020

Chị Điểu Thị Trang – Dự án Rừng và Đồng bằng (VFD) do USAID tài trợ

Chị Điểu Thị Trang là người dân tộc Châu Mạ sinh ra và trưởng thành ở khu vực Cát Tiên, tỉnh Lâm Đồng, Tây Nguyên, Việt Nam. Từ khi còn nhỏ đến nay đã kết hôn và có hai con, nguồn thu nhập của chị Trang và gia đình vẫn dựa vào rừng Cát Tiên.

Nhằm giảm phụ thuộc vào rừng và khuyến khích thành viên các cộng đồng sống dựa vào rừng tham gia vào hoạt động bảo vệ rừng bền vững tại nơi sinh sống, năm 2010 Chính phủ Việt Nam đã đưa vào triển khai hệ thống chi trả dịch vụ môi trường rừng (PFES). Theo quy định của hệ thống này, các công ty thủy điện sẽ trả cho thành viên các cộng đồng sống dựa vào rừng, giống như gia đình chị Trang, tiền bảo vệ các lưu vực sông để đảm bảo các công ty này có nguồn cung nước ổn định cho hoạt động sản xuất điện.

Đối với trường hợp của chị Trang, gia đình chị đã nhận gần 1.100 đô la (tương đương khoảng 24 triệu đồng) mỗi năm thông qua hệ thống PFES cho việc bảo vệ và chăm sóc các khu rừng tại Cát Tiên.

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USAID hỗ trợ huy động sự tham gia ủng hộ của các trưởng bản đối với các quỹ cộng đồng do phụ nữ quản lý nhằm mục tiêu xóa đói giảm nghèo và cải thiện sinh kế

usaid.gov – Thứ Ba, 22 December, 2020

Ông Vì Văn Hạnh, Trưởng bản LùnDự án Rừng và Đồng bằng Việt Nam (VFD) của USAID

Ông Vì Văn Hạnh – Trưởng bản Lùn, tỉnh Sơn La. Ngôi làng của ông cũng giống như các ngôi làng khác ở tỉnh Sơn La đều chịu chung tình trạng thiếu thốn cơ sở hạ tầng, ít cơ hội sinh kế và nghèo khó. Do người dân chuyển sang khai thác rừng để kiếm sống đã làm gia tăng áp lực và khiến các khu rừng rơi vào nguy cơ bị khai thác quá mức.

Để giải quyết được thách thức kép vừa bảo tồn rừng vừa đem đến các cơ hội thu nhập, Chính phủ Việt Nam đã phát triển và thực hiện hệ thống Chi trả dịch vụ môi trường rừng (DVMTR). Thông qua chính sách này, các doanh nghiệp thủy điện và người sử dụng dịch vụ rừng ở hạ nguồn sẽ chi trả cho các cộng đồng ở thượng nguồn phí bảo vệ rừng và lưu vực sông để tránh mất rừng và thoái hóa rừng, đảm bảo cho các công ty có nguồn cung nước ổn định để sản xuất điện.

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Cải thiện môi trường kinh doanh

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USAID đang hỗ trợ nâng cao năng lực kết nối của các doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa Việt Nam.

USAID đang hỗ trợ nâng cao năng lực kết nối của các doanh nghiệp nhỏ và vừa Việt Nam.Nguyễn Thạc Phương/USAID

USAID – Việt Nam đã có những bước phát triển vượt bậc trên hành trình phát triển trong 30 năm qua. Với những cải cách kinh tế quan trọng được khởi xướng vào năm 1986 nhằm hướng tới định hướng thị trường có điều tiết, Việt Nam đã chuyển đổi từ một trong những quốc gia nghèo nhất thế giới thành một quốc gia có thu nhập trung bình thấp. Mục tiêu cuối cùng của Chính phủ Việt Nam là phát triển từ quốc gia thu nhập trung bình thấp thành quốc gia có mức thu nhập trung bình cao vào năm 2035. Để duy trì xu hướng tăng trưởng ấn tượng, đồng thời tránh bẫy thu nhập trung bình, Việt Nam phải giải quyết những thách thức chính bao gồm chính sách và quản trị nhà nước về kinh tế, cơ sở hạ tầng và nhu cầu năng lượng, tăng cường khả năng cạnh tranh của khu vực tư nhân và phát triển năng lực của lực lượng lao động.

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National forest service payment mechanism generates 120 million USD annually

The Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system implemented at national scale under an USAID project now generates approximately 120 million USD annually to finance the management of approximately 6 million hectares of Vietnam’s forests.

VNA Thursday, April 22, 2021 21:26 

National forest service payment mechanism generates 120 million USD annually hinh anh 1

Friday, December 18, 2020 19:05Pine trees planted in the Ta Dung National Park in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong (Photo: VNA)

Lam Dong (VNA) – The Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system implemented at national scale under an USAID project now generates approximately 120 million USD annually to finance the management of approximately 6 million hectares of Vietnam’s forests.

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Australia, US partner on air-launched hypersonic missile

By: Nigel Pittaway, defensenews    3 days ago

A common hypersonic glide body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii on March 19, 2020, during a flight experiment. Australia and the U.S. are teaming up on hypersonic weapons development. (Courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia and the United States are partnering to develop and test an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile under the bilateral Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment program, or SCIFiRE, the two countries announced Monday.

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