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Hypersonic test flight hits target on time

The HTV-2 - another hypersonic vehicle - crashed into Pacific in August
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The HTV-2 - another hypersonic vehicle - crashed into Pacific in August DARPA
Philippe Naughton
November 18 2011 11:50AM
A new weapon which travels five times the speed of sound has been successfully tested by the US Army and could help the United States in its strategic bid to be able to deliver conventional warheads anywhere on the planet within an hour.
The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon was launched from the military’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, at about 1.30 am, reaching hypersonic speeds as it glided over the Pacific.
The weapon’s “glide vehicle” reached Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands -- some 2,300 miles away -- in less than half an hour, said Lieutenant Colonel Melinda Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman.
Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service said that the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the military’s program to develop “prompt global strike” weapons that would allow the US to strike targets anywhere in the world with conventional weapons in 60 minutes - something it can already do with nuclear warheads.
The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, are developing a similar vehicle, the HTV-2, capable of flying at speeds of up to 13,000mph. That craft crashed into the Pacific during a test flight in August.
The Pentagon said the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, or AHW, vehicle is designed to fly long ranges within the earth’s atmosphere at speeds exceeding Mach 5 or 3,728mph. .
The objective of yesterday’s test was to collect data on technologies that boost the hypersonic vehicle and allow it to glide. The Army was also testing how the vehicle performed in long-range flight.
The Congressional Research Service report said the AHW would be able to manoeuvre to avoid flying over third party nations as it approached its target. The weapon would use a precision guidance system to home in on the target, it said.
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John Johnson
November 18, 2011 4:42 PM
What am I missing? A missile travelling at about 3,700 mph can be anywhere in the world in an hour. The circumference of the globe at the equator is about 24,000 miles. The maths isn't working here for me. Shouldn't the headline read "America develops fairly fast missile"?
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CJSJ
November 18, 2011 4:53 PM
Presumably this missile will be designed to be fired from submarines, of which point the US has enough platforms on patrol around the globe at any one time to give sufficient coverage to achieve this aim of strike anywhere within one hour. It doesn't explicitly state this admittedly, but it makes the most sense given how the US and also ourselves administer our nuclear deterrents.
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Alan Hawkes
November 18, 2011 4:23 PM
Anyone want the Chinese to have it first? Anyone wish that the USSR had had it first? And one day it will become holiday transport. Heathrow to Sydney in an hour.
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James Foo
November 18, 2011 4:50 PM
Nice racist innuendo.
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Mr Singh
November 18, 2011 3:07 PM
Don't understand the negativity on here towards military advancement - that is what has got the human race as far as it has done in terms of technological development. Medical equipment, computers and the very thing you are using at the moment - The Internet - as you all know started here.
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derek bevan
November 18, 2011 2:41 PM
how long have we got left ? Is it worth while saving,to build a pension pot ?
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Ray Robinson
November 18, 2011 2:40 PM
So now we know the cause of the US deficit.
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derek bevan
November 18, 2011 2:39 PM
Could it collide with anything whilst in transit ? eg. satellites
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Will1978
November 18, 2011 3:34 PM
No, it flies within the earths atmostphere
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Keith Carter
November 18, 2011 4:38 PM
Just airplanes
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Tim Wilson
November 18, 2011 2:05 PM
Lets hope Aipac and Mossad don't Buy/Steal the secrets or it will be mayhem in the Mid-East !
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Daren Miller
November 18, 2011 2:32 PM
Stupid comment- all the targets Israel might wish to attack are al;ready with half an hour- and vice versa
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Tyler Durden
November 18, 2011 1:48 PM
Can you imagine just how much more advanced we would be as a human race if we spent the same budget on true human equality (no richest 1%), technological advance and empowerment instead of spending it on mass human destruction (genocide?). I can think of an infinitely more worthy cause for each and every dollar that they have wasted on this 'project'!

The American "Defence"(?!) are nothing more then over-paranoid super-bullies.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know true peace"
• Sri Chinmoy Ghose
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Shivers
November 18, 2011 2:02 PM
Thats quite an overused argument. It should not be the superpowers which drop their arms but the rogue states first who seem to use military agression as a bargaining tool at the world trade rounds.
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Stephen Robinson
November 18, 2011 2:10 PM
When Iran points its soon to be nuclear capability at Great Britain, you will be glad that the USA have this technology in their weaponry.
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Tyler Durden
November 18, 2011 2:25 PM
It's an "overused argument" because it is such a massively humanitarian and valid one! You can try to justify the ignorance and brutality of the worlds military powers with the same BS propaganda that they attempt to use, but in the greater scheme of things, I believe you would find yourself very much a minority.

Lowering yourself to anothers level of aggression and destructive appetite doesn't solve anything. Nobody wins.

You're exactly what the American propaganda-machine wants... mindless support and devotion to an unworthy and inhumane cause.

I pity your ignorance
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michael walsh
November 18, 2011 2:29 PM
Not that i'm all that fond of weapons, but that is just about the stupidest mishmash of nonsense statements that i've heard in a while. I really like how you segue effortlessly (read: crudely, ill-advisedly) from "weapons are bad" to "the richest 1%". It really hammers home the general sense that you have the attention span of a twelve year old and so just couldn't resist throwing in today's hip, catch-all critique of anything bigger than one person which that person doesn't like. Well done. 1%. Yeah. Right on.

....Also, a huge range of things that have dramatically improved all human life have come about as a direct result of innovation relating to- and as a result of war. So...yeah. Right on.
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derek bevan
November 18, 2011 2:44 PM
They almost wiped out the indigenous Indians,in their own country,or,was that the Brits ?
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November 18, 2011 4:21 PM
michael walsh
Calm down ear- others may think you are stupid with such a rant!
Derek Bevan
It was John Wayne (rip)
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Ron Clarke
November 18, 2011 4:40 PM
And the world will be much cooler when Hell freezes over.

Until then we must live in the world as it is, not as we would wish it to be,
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Harriet Hill
November 18, 2011 1:47 PM
fantastic news! my day just got so much better now I know that America can kill people faster than before!

What a serious and disgusting waste of money. Couldn't agree with Liam B more.
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Liam *B* (Now down under)
November 18, 2011 1:40 PM
I wish we spent that kind of money on curing paralysis instead of inventing bombs.
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Shivers
November 18, 2011 2:04 PM
For once Liam, I agree with you.
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Joseph Kellie
November 18, 2011 1:29 PM
Why this rush headlong for more efficient killing machines. If you put the money spent globally on weapons into actually making our lives better there would be no crisis and everyone would be happier.

The USA needs wars to survive and is more than happy to forment them via the CIA.
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Daren Miller
November 18, 2011 12:54 PM
First we got the bomb, and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's okay,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way.
Who's next?

France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side (I believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears,
They can't wipe us out for at least five years.
Who's next?

Then Indonesia claimed that they
Were gonna get one any day.
South Africa wants two, that's right:
One for the black and one for the white.
Who's next?

Egypt's gonna get one too,
Just to use on you know who.
So Israel's getting tense.
Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb.
Who's next?

Luxembourg is next to go,
And (who knows?) maybe Monaco.
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb.
Who's next?


Tom Lehrer 1960s
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colin farrelly
November 18, 2011 12:05 PM
Iran are you watching.????
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