The Air Force ’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 — design to attack global butt at Mach 20 — has melt nine minutes into its first test flight , just after separating from its plugger . Contact was lost , and it has n’t been regain yet .
The Falcon was suppose to splash down in the Pacific Ocean after a 30 - minute , 4,100 - maritime - international nautical mile trial run flight . Not to be confound with theunmanned X-37B space shuttlecock — which launched onApril 22 — the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 blast off last calendar week from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Minotaur IV rocket engine .
https://gizmodo.com/air-force-to-launch-military-orbital-spaceplane-5030769
alternatively of complete its flight , however , the Air Force lost all contact with the aircraft . According to DARPA ’s Johanna Spangenberg Jones :
Preliminary review of data indicates the HTV-2 achieved control escape within the atmosphere at over Mach 20 . Then tangency with HTV-2 was lost . This was our first flight ( all others were done in farting tunnels and simulations ) so although of course we would like to have everything go perfectly , we still assemble datum and can utilise findings for the next flight , scheduled currently for early 2011 .
Just that : The telemetry data sign vanished , and the aircraft is nowhere to be find oneself . Being a semi - orphic projection , nothing else has been disclosed . The only logical explanations are 1 ) a massive morphological nonstarter , 2)Nazi UFOsor 3 ) somebody drop off it in a beer garden . I will pick number two for the time being .
https://gizmodo.com/inside-a-nazi-ufo-5515450
The hypersonic sailplane is built by Lockheed Martin under a DARPA program . It ’s designed to set up conventional weapon against any target in the planet in just one hour . This capability piddle it a gross substitute for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles . UnlikeICBMs loaded with schematic head , the airplane ca n’t be mistaken with a atomic missile , so it wo n’t make other atomic powers to murder the red button . Maybe . [ Physorg ]
https://gizmodo.com/non-nuclear-us-icbm-can-strike-iran-in-30-minutes-5518192
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