DARPA Plans Test Flight For Prototype Hypersonic Weapon.
The Wired (2/22, Hodge) "Danger Room" blog reports that DARPA "is planning an April test flight for a prototype of a hypersonic weapon that - in theory - could cross the Pacific Ocean in under two hours." An unpowered version of the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) "will be launched on a booster rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and glide to a target site in the Marshall Islands" in April. The launch "is part of the Falcon program, a Darpa-Air Force project to develop the tech that could lead to a reusable hypersonic vehicle that could take off and land like a plane." The Falcon program is, in turn, related to the now-shelved Blackswift program.
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