Browsing: DARPA

The test flight of a hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle over the Pacific Ocean did not go as planned. For the second time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency lost control of the experiment before it was over, tweeting nine minutes into the flight that scientists had lost telemetry with the fastest aircraft ever built. Here’s how DARPA explains it: “Here’s what we know,” said Air Force Maj. Chris Schulz, DARPA HTV-2 program manager and PhD in aerospace engineering.  “We know how to boost the aircraft to near space.  We know how to insert the aircraft into atmospheric hypersonic flight.  We…

News broke today that China is launching its first aircraft carrier for sea trials this week fueling concerns about China’s rise as a military power in Asia. And while the jury is out on just how much China’s improving capabilities threaten the U.S. and its interests in the region, what is certain is that not only did the U.S. figure out how to use carriers 70 years ago, we’ve also got 11 of them. Here’s something else for Beijing to ponder while it’s tooling around off its coast in decades-old technology: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today at Vandenberg …

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