So Much For This Space Weapons Program

Falcon HTV-2

Plane's Flameout May End Space Weapon Plan -- Washington Times

In the language of Beltway defense wonkery, the results of this year's test launch of the hypersonic unmanned U.S. aircraft designated Falcon HTV-2 might be called sub-optimal.

In plain English, it appears certain that the experimental space plane - a key element of U.S. efforts to develop a conventional weapon that can strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour - disintegrated and burned up in the upper atmosphere in a failure that casts a question mark over the program's future.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which conducted the test flight, would say only that an engineering review board is examining data from the test flight.

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My Comment: With little if any money left over for R&D projects like this .... this program is probably dead.