Military Aerospace:
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are kicking off a project to develop enabling technologies to counter the growing threat of enemy hypersonic missiles and aircraft.
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., issued a broad agency announcement on Tuesday for the Glide Breaker program to counter enemy hypersonic vehicles — or those that can fly faster than five times the speed of sound.
Top U.S. military leaders over the past year have voiced their alarm about Chinese and Russian projects to develop hypersonic missiles and aircraft. Hypersonic missiles particularly would be useful to attack large U.S. surface warships like aircraft carriers.
