Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle
Data Gleaned From "Global Strike" Glider Flight Before Crash -- Global Security Newswire
A U.S. hypersonic drone aircraft sent out information for more than nine minutes before an "anomaly" disrupted transmissions during a flight test on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said (see GSN, Aug. 11; U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency release, Aug. 11).
The Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 is one system being considered to provide the United States with the "prompt global strike" capability to deliver non-nuclear warheads to any location in the world within an hour. Washington could tap that asset to strike an Iranian atomic facility or hit a North Korean missile prior to liftoff, the New York Times reported. Such a capability might also be employed against a critical terrorist location if no other weapon could carry out a sufficiently rapid attack (Thom Shanker, New York Times, Aug. 12).
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