Here is a bit more information on the tests:
For example, currently today to get from NY to LA is a five hour flight in a commercial aircraft. With a hypersonic weapon, you could do that same thing in about 30 minutes. You can go great distances at great speeds.’
The previous three flights ended in failure or didn’t reach the intended speed.
Though the aircraft was designed to reach Mach 6, or six times the speed of sound, program officials were satisfied with its performance in the latest test.
‘It was a full mission success,’ program manager Charlie Brink of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said in a statement.
The sleek, missile-shaped WaveRider was released from a B-52 bomber 50,000 feet above the Pacific and was initially accelerated by a rocket before the scramjet kicked in.
Well we can’t wait for this thing to have commercial use and will save us tons of time! We hope you like the video.
thanks to daily mail for the great writeup
thanks to the U.S. Air Force for the pic
Cool, they build a Railgun capable of firing projectiles at Mach 10 I believe…
It actually can’t move across the U.S. in 30 minutes, mostly because it’s still a theoretical idea and it hasn’t been built yet. A scale version hasn’t even been tested yet.
Nice.
Not 100% accurate Luke. They have built test vehicles, but all 3 of them (that we know of) disintegrated.