The Debrief: DARPA Signals Interest In Reusable Hypersonic Prototype

Credit: Leidos/AFRL
A new kind of hypersonic vehicle could infiltrate an enemy’s most defended area, strike a target and then—unlike the rest of the disposable, Mach 5-plus missiles produced or acknowledged to date—return to base to fight another day. For decades, however, the dream of a reusable hypersonic vehicle had...

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