Well, that was quick. The US military has lost all contact with a hypersonic aircraft that the Pentagon hoped would clock in as the fastest vehicle every created, officials said. The unmanned Falcon ...

If all goes well, the Pentagon this week will test an unmanned aircraft that, in theory, can travel at speeds upwards of 13,000 miles per hour and send a missile to strike an identified target within ...

Defense department tests drone to fly at 13,000 mph. Aug. 11, 2011— -- The U.S. military said it launched a hypersonic test aircraft called the Falcon HTV-2, which reached speeds of 13,000 mph, ...

(Update: 1:06 p.m. EDT)The U.S. military lost contact with an unmanned hypersonic glider shortly after it launched on a test flight today (Aug. 12) as part of a global strike weapons program to ...

On Thursday, DARPA's unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Air Force Minotaur IV rocket, which inserted the ...

DARPA has released the findings from an independent engineering review board on what caused the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) to fail nine minutes into its August 11, 2011 test flight. On that ...

Aerodynamic design validated and new understanding of thermal material properties gained Following an extensive seven-month analysis of data collected from the Aug. 11, 2011, second flight of DARPA’s ...

The Pentagon will test a super fast, unmanned aircraft that can travel at Mach 20 -twenty times faster than the speed of sound, up to 13,000 miles per hour. The aircraft is fast enough to travel from ...

DARPA has confirmed the splash down of its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) following the hypersonic vehicle's second test flight on August 11. While a "controlled descent" ...

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency may have lost contact with its Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 some 9min after launch, but the 23 April mission would appear to stand as a ...

DARPA will launch the second flight test of an unmanned hypersonic glider Thursday (Aug. 11) to test technologies needed for a new global strike bomber concept designed to fly 20 times the speed of ...