Posted on 11/17/2011 9:49:00 PM PST by 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.
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Keeping us safe. God bless the inventors, developers, makers and US Military.
America!
Just in time to make right some stuff in Iran?
This and railguns on cruisers, what will they think of next!
Hats off to our guys...brilliant! and beyond impressive.
Why?
I’d rather pay for this stuff than subsidizing freeloaders and liberal programs.
Not that I mind, but I would think this would be an Air Force weapon, not an Army one. Good job Soldiers !
I’m still hoping for the day when we get hypersonic airline travel (and obviously without the boom)........that will be the ultimate tech breakthrough.
Mach 5?
The last time Obama saw something move that fast, it was Larry Sinclair’s hand in his pants.
Angry sea bass.
The Army did a lot of the work on early ballistic missiles because they had the German emigres working at their Huntsville arsenal. The USAF eventually got control when the missions got sorted out.
Now if the socialists in charge of our country don’t give the design to the Chicoms, we have an advantage.
Now if the socialists in charge of our country dont give the design to the Chicoms, we have an advantage.
I'm pretty sure it was a joint effort. The US dumps money into the R&D and we pay Chicom "consultants" to go over every inch of the project to make sure that the developers didn't violate too many environmental regulations.
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Too bad it was not aimed at Washington, District of Crooks.
The Army version is launched on top of a booster rocket. I would presume the Air Force version would be launchable from a B-52 or B-2. This would give them the ability to launch what would effectively be a ballistic missile, but without any ballistic missile launch signature.
I'm pretty sure it was a joint effort. The US dumps money into the R&D and we pay Chicom "consultants" to go over every inch of the project to make sure that the developers didn't violate too many environmental regulations.
WHAT!?
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