hypersonic weapon

Ridding the planet of its first hypersonic weapons delivery system would be a public service to all humankind.

Army test flight of hypersonic weapon 'flawless'

Receiving Congressional approval in 1957, the WS-199 project would award contracts to three different companies to develop experimental designs for new, hypersonic weapons.

The programme is aimed at paving the way to future hypersonic weapons, hypersonic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and future access to space, it said.

In addition, the islands have become a testing site in recent years for experimental hypersonic weapons, which use scramjet engines to propel missiles at extremely high speeds.

Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, a DARPA project.

Such impacts are not yet used in military situations-although active military research in hypersonic weapons is going on-but can arise from meteorite impacts on spacecraft.

Such a hypersonic weapon concept flies at a relatively flat trajectory within the atmosphere, rather than soaring up toward space like a ballistic missile and eventually coming back down.

The U.S. Army hypersonic weapon prototype streaked across the Pacific Ocean at several times the speed of sound Thursday in a flawless maiden test flight.

The first phase of the hypersonic weapon system development was won by three bidders in 2003, each receiving a $1.2 to $1.5 million contract for hypersonic vehicle development:

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

Supported the Northrop Grumman team on the first phase of the hypersonic weapon system development for the DARPA Falcon Project.

He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1988, and his work at Sandia focused on hypersonic weapons, the aerodynamics of maneuverable reentry vehicles, and standoff bombs.

And Congress almost doubled to $200 million funds to develop prompt global-strike capability - the seeking of an advanced hypersonic weapon to deliver a conventional weapon anywhere in the world within an hour.

Two Chinese technical papers from December 2012 and April 2013 show the country has concluded hypersonic weapons pose "a new aerospace threat" and that they are developing satellite directed precision guidance systems.

On 30 August 2013, a Russian Defense Ministry source revealed that the PAK DA will be equipped with advanced types of precision guided weapons, including hypersonic weapons.

The U.S. Air Force has flown the X-51A Waverider technology demonstrator and the U.S. Army has flight tested the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon.

PGS does not define the mode of operation, and current studies include Advanced Hypersonic Weapon boost-glide warhead, Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic aircraft, and submarine launched missiles.

The Army would not discuss exactly how fast the weapon can go, but describes it as a hypersonic weapon, which generally means five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5, ABC News said.

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 Pentagon said the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon had glided through the upper atmosphere over the Pacific at hypersonic speeds before hitting its target on Kwajalein atoll, the BBC reported.

The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is intended as a "prompt global strike" weapons that would allow the United States to strike targets anywhere in the world, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported.

On 18 November 2011, the first Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) glide vehicle was successfully tested by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command as part of the Prompt Global Strike program.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army says it has successfully tested a hypersonic weapon delivery system that could reach any target in the world in just a couple of hours.