Start was at 1:30 am local time (photo from army.mil).
A prototype high-speed glider, originally overclocked three-stage rocket, after a long free flight in the atmosphere hit the target at the range.
Since it was shown that the use of such devices for precision strikes on remote objects.
November 17, 2011 the U.S. military has successfully tested a prototype "hypersonic weapons advanced» (Advanced Hypersonic Weapon - AHW). The experimental apparatus was launched from the landfill Pacific Missile Range in Hawaii and hit the target at the range Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll.
These two points are separated by more than 3,700 kilometers and less than an hour flight. Moreover, after separation from the rocket booster AHW not moving along a ballistic trajectory, and slid into the atmosphere at hypersonic.
The purpose of this test - test of aerodynamics, navigation, guidance and control, as well as thermal protection technology - said the U.S. Defense Department.
This experience was a continuation in part of a hypersonic aircraft test successful Falcon HTV-2, conducted in August 2011.
He also clocked a hypersonic missile unit in front of the site of free flight, but early fell into the ocean. The results of the test year helped prepare a new hypersound glider. A follower of HTV-2 came all the way through and ended up exactly to where it was planned.
Both machines are part of related initiatives "rapid global strike" designed to create a non-nuclear weapon that can hit a target anywhere in the world within hours after the start, recalls Gizmag.
The Source: The membrane
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