In Case You Haven't Heard, the Air Force and DARPA Just had an Accident
The United States Air Force and DARPA conducted a missile test earlier this week that didn’t exactly go according to plan. The aviation website Avation Week reported that, “a scramjet-powered missile developed under the joint DARPA/U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program was destroyed in a recent test accident.”
During a test flight the HAWC missile in question somehow separated from the pylon mating it to the B-52 delivery plane. The flight was intended as a “captive-carry flight test” only, the missile was not intended to separate from its pylon.
ARPA says that the HAWC missile “seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise missile. The program intends to emphasize efficient, rapid and affordable flight tests to validate key technologies.” The missile itself is quite fast.
It can fly at Mach 5 and greater, which is five times the speed of sound. This particular scramjet missile is designed to give the United States better stand-off capabilities and to keep enemies off guard by reducing their window of response time. In particular, DARPA lists several of “technologies of interest” including sustained hypersonic cruise flight and managing the stress caused by thermal heating on the missile’s skin. Of course, one of the big requirements is program affordability.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/case-haven-t-heard-air-120000812.html
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but we can't afford Health Care for ALL.
That's just like these damned fucking Blue Angel flights and other propaganda stunts our tax money pays for. I'm so tired of it. 
"From 2009 to 2018, the U.S. spent over $6.8 trillion on the Pentagon. This, despite the fact that since the particularly bad flu season of 2009, the U.S. government knew it lacked a permanent budget to buy protective medical gear for its Strategic National Stockpile of supplies for health emergencies."
