JUST WHAT WE NEED!

AN UNMANNED PLANE THAT TRAVELS 13,000 MILES PER HOUR

Another wonderful way to kill people from those fine folks at DARPA. By the time you finish reading this sentence, the Falcon HTV-2, the fastest plane ever built, could have flown 18 miles. It would get from London to Sydney in less than an hour, while withstanding temperatures of almost 2,000C, hotter than the melting point of steel. The Falcon started life in 2003, part of a research project to build a plane that could reach and potentially deliver bombs to any part of the world in less than an hour.

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UPDATE SECOND MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR REMOTE

CONTROL SUPERPLANE LOST

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says contact with its experimental hypersonic superplane was lost after launch from  the central California coast. The U.S. military was trying to develop technology to respond to threats around the globe at speeds of Mach 20 or greater.
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