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    Army tests hypersonic weapon over the Pacific

    HONOLULU (AP) โ€” The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound.

    The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 a.m.

    The weapon's "glide vehicle" reached Kwajalein Atoll โ€” some 2,300 miles away โ€” in less than half an hour, said Lt. Col. Melinda Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

    Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service said in a report the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the military's program to develop "prompt global strike" weapons that would allow the U.S. to strike targets anywhere in the world with conventional weapons in as little as an hour.

    The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, are developing a similar vehicle.

    The Pentagon said the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, or AHW, vehicle is designed to fly long ranges within the earth's atmosphere at speeds that are at least five times the speed of sound.

    The objective of Thursday'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 maneuver 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.

     
    • Jaymyster  •  Monson, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Wow we have this type of technology, yet we could not stop the trade centers or the pentagon from getting hit. Its amazing the things we are told and are suppose to believe.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Canton, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Gettin' ready for that WW3 thats been planned and orchestrated aye?
    • Mickey  •  6 mths ago
      So if we shot this at Iran they couldn't even finish an episode of "Your Wife Showed Me Her Ankle?"
    • Purple9  •  6 mths ago
      China will start hiring military spy for this new US technology. Watch out!
      • cccp 6 mths ago
        there probably already in... kgb still is...
      • Raymond 6 mths ago
        THEY WILL STEAL IT.
      • Beyer 6 mths ago
        With all the Chinese PhD students, they will not need to steal anything in the future.
    • Buckwheat  •  6 mths ago
      I hate to ask, but ... How many parts were built in China?
      • Phillip D 6 mths ago
        For something this high-tech and highly classified I'd be willing to bet almost all the pieces were custom made in laboratories here in the USA.
      • andy 6 mths ago
        built in china, designed by the indians ordered by americans and the profit goes to china.
      • fortbrian 6 mths ago
        Bought a package of boxers today from Kohl's. Tried them on tonight and in areas of the seams the stitching was loose and thread was gone. Yes folks, they are made in China! Enough said?
    • Kevin  •  6 mths ago
      OMG hurry up and invent the lightsaber already ....
      • michael 6 mths ago
        I want hoverboards and flux capacitors.
      • Rick LV 6 mths ago
        Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough but your uncle wouldn't allow it...
      • Worker no. 11811 6 mths ago
        lmfao at all 3 of you guys!! I was totally thinking buckaroo banzai so its a nerd convention up in this piece!!
    • Oliver  •  San Diego, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Amazing technology; but we're getting low-teched to death by IED's and bombs strapped to people's chests. Hypersonic is impressive stuff but not when our soldiers have to patrol urban combat situations where they have no idea where the target is, or from where it might emerge.
      • James co 6 mths ago
        Idea is to keep our guys out of those occupying situations yet still irradicate our enemies
      • Truth seeker 6 mths ago
        we could also probably save our troops lives if we didn't send them to fight arguably irrelevant wars...
      • Dan 6 mths ago
        Or WHO the target is.
    • a voice in the wilderness  •  Kansas City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      hypersonic aircraft ? and this from a country where it takes 3 or 4 years just to get a veterans claim adjudicated at the montgomery alabama va regional office? go figure!
    • Ronald W  •  6 mths ago
      A lot of saber rattling all around the world lately. I'm happy we have this technology, but why broadcast it?
    • Yamaguchi  •  Kathmandu, Nepal  •  6 mths ago
      I suggest this technology to be use in online shopping delivery.
    • DBL  •  Eltopia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      News flash, NASA's X -15 did Mach 5 in the 60's.....
    • Free Fire Wire  •  6 mths ago
      They launched it at 1:30 am and the Chinese started work on theirs at 1:32 am.
    • Bobarama  •  New Brunswick, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Yeah we can make that, but we can't make a TV...
    • kobe24  •  Raleigh, United States  •  6 mths ago
      i wonder if this will be in the next call of duty...20 killstreak?
    • G  •  Albuquerque, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Is there any wonder why the rest of the world is afraid of us?? I think that weapons we have on hand are more than enough. More wasted money that could have been used to reduce our national debt.
    • GrayMatter  •  Richardson, United States  •  6 mths ago
      It's a reminder of what Einstein said when a reporter asked him what weapons we would use in WWIII.

      He replied.."I don't know....but I can tell you what our weapons will be in WWIV. Rocks.
    • Jason  •  Tampa, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Iran you will not even hear it coming
    • tim  •  Pennsauken, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Do you really think that our Defense Department doesn't have its own secret budget!
    • Mike  •  Cincinnati, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Stop Zionist barbaric war machine!
    • zoos  •  6 mths ago
      Anywhere in less than an hour ? That's better than pizza delivery!
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