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 second test of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) ended in the same fashion it predecessor did, crashing into the Pacific Ocean nine ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 is currently the fastest jet in the world. It was first launched in April 2010. The second flight was made a year later, in August, 2011. It was designed for ...