Army Tests Hypersonic Weapon over the Pacific

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 17 November 2011 | No Byline

[The Pack Knight]

HONOLULU (AP) — The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound.

The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 a.m.

The weapon's "glide vehicle" reached Kwajalein Atoll — some 2,300 miles away — in less than half an hour, said Lt. Col. Melinda Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service said in a report the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the military's program to develop "prompt global strike" weapons that would allow the U.S. to strike targets anywhere in the world with conventional weapons in as little as an hour.

The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, are developing a similar vehicle.

The Pentagon said the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, or AHW, vehicle is designed to fly long ranges within the earth's atmosphere at speeds that are at least five times the speed of sound.

[jttpwalsh]

Thanks for the info !

[TomGuy]

Chicom "consultants" to go over every inch of the project

Gotta make sure those 'Made-in-China' microchips fit correctly in the slots, etc.

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These Fake Chinese Microchips Were Made To Disarm U.S. Missiles(planted with Trojan horses)

06/27/2011 9:08:28 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 71 replies Business Insider ^ | 06/27/11 | Robert Johnson These Fake Chinese Microchips Were Made To Disarm U.S. Missiles Robert Johnson | Jun. 27, 2011, 9:22 AM | 3,789 | 29 Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders that turned out to be counterfeits from China. Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time. Apparently foreign chip makers are often better at making cheap microchips and U.S. defense contractors are loathe to pass up the better deal.

[Nachum]

I want one

[doorgunner69]

Hmmm, a manuervable hypersonic missile.

Seems like I read not so long ago the Russians announced developing the same thing, touting how it could defeat any missile defenses.

[wordsofearnest]

My late Uncle Robert ended up there with an anti-submarine patrol unit during WW II.

[neverdem]

Thank you!

[GeronL]

Quality Control needs some work.

[muawiyah]

They gave the Air Force the ICBMs even though those suckers are actually dug in down in the dirt ~ which is an Army sort of environment.

Now, they're giving hypersonic one way trip weapons to the Army, even though the Air Force could put real pilots on there and sacrifice them! Need to build up pilot training programs of course, but you can't have everything.

[muawiyah]

Just an address ~ you don’t need to take out the whole place anymore.