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, ...

Lockheed Martin-designed craft will demonstrate technology for reusable, unmanned hypersonic cruise vehicle Lockheed Martin is proceeding with design of a hypersonic test vehicle (HTV) after the US ...

The Air Force launched and lost the world's fastest plane on a Thursday test flight. Built in partnership with the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the unmanned Falcon HTV-2 glider ...

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 develop vehicles capable of ...

1/27/2006 – KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFPN) — For an aircraft to achieve hypersonic speeds, ranging from 6,000 to 15,000 mph (Mach 9 to Mach 22), and reach altitudes between 100,000 to 150,000 ...

(Yes, it's on foxnews site but that's the link a friend gave me) Unmanned craft, launches on a rocket and then separates and flies at hypersonic speeds (mach 20 or 13,000mph). For a comparison of what ...

In this episode, we follow DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 - a hypersonic glide vehicle built to prove whether Mach 20 flight could deliver a strike anywhere on Earth in under an hour. We track the two public ...