Now that's a big OOPS

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Falcopops · #1 Post by **Falcopops** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:23 am

US military scientists on Thursday launched a hypersonic aircraft but lost contact with the experimental plane in its second test flight.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/tech-news/a/-/ ... ntact-lost

Nooj · #2 Post by **Nooj** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:14 pm

The hypersonic plane, which is supposed to travel at Mach 20, or 21,000 km/h, could potentially provide the US military with a platform for striking targets anywhere on the planet within minutes using conventional weapons.

Such a weapon, still in development, is part of what the US Air Force has dubbed "prompt global strike" capability.

"The ultimate goal is a capability that can reach anywhere in the world in less than an hour," DARPA said on its website.

Forgetting how cool the engineering is...

Does anybody else find it a little bit scary that the Yanks are working on a weapon that can destroy a target anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes before anyone's worked out what it is? This is a nation that's modern history is based on religious fundamentalism, racial persecution and genocide!! We're not safe from these lunatics!

Samray · #3 Post by **Samray** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:21 pm

History has been one unending arms race, pre-history too.
I'm relatively happy that the yanks stay ahead of some of the alternative regimes.

#4 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:55 pm

The us is skint. theyre just setting off some (old prototype plane) fireworks to try and give the appearance theyre not shopping at lidl.

But we all know the truth!

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/SID- ... /17040.htm