Kal’s Korner

U.S. Military Loses Second Hypersonic Transport Aircraft

by
Kal K. Korff
Internationally Syndicated
Copyright © 2011 by Kal K. Korff - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

The Falcon Hypersonic Transport Vehicle can travel at 22 times the speed of sound. (Credit: DARPA.)
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It costs $320 million dollars, and can fly at 22 times the speed of sound, which is faster
than most rockets. It was launched with great fanfare over the pacific ocean yesterday,
and now it has disappeared, perhaps forever.

Just 2,700 seconds into its historic launch, the U.S. military has lost its new Hypersonic
Test Vehicle (HTV) during what was expected to be its final test run before regular
production of these high speed wonders was to begin. This is the second HTV which
has vanished, communications problems doomed this particular flight. Ground operators
lost contact with it minutes into its flight.

The HTV uses a new kind of propulsion, known as hypersonic transport. Launched into
the air via a high speed rocket, the black triangular-shaped craft, which has caused
scores of “UFO” sightings around the globe, then separates in space from its shell,
waiting for orders to streak to its target or destination.

Regardless of where it is launched from, it can reach any point on Earth in about an
hour. The aircraft flies so fast, its surface literally glows red due to the enormous friction
the vehicle endures in the atmosphere.

Heating up to a temperature greater than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot

enough to melt steel, its body is comprised of special heat dispersing ceramics and
unibody composite materials so that it doesn’t fall apart.

The HTV also contains stealth technologies. Even if you were able to detect it on radar,
by the time you figured out what it was, it would be too late.

The United States hopes to have several of these vehicles available for use at a
moment’s notice. They are unmanned, and can be loaded either with conventional
explosives, or if desired, be used as a deadly flying projectile in itself.

Kinetic Weapons - Wave of the Future

America is pursuing a whole new generation of weapons which depend not on high
explosive yields to kill, but instead use energy. Called “kinetic weapons,” the U.S. Navy
has been experimenting with an electromagnetic rail gun which shoots titanium rods or
projectiles at a target at such incredible speeds, they obliterate it on contact.

While using an HTV to destroy a target is a very expensive proposition, as more are
made over the coming years their manufacturing costs will drop. The greatest challenge
engineers faced was how to make a propulsion engine fly so fast. They have now

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solved this part of the problem. No other nation at present, other than the United States,
has such weapons.

They can be used to intercept incoming nuclear missiles, or obliterate entire city blocks
at a time, without resorting to using nuclear or other dirty or toxic explosives. The HTV
can also destroy entire ships, it simply has to fly into one, kamikaze style. There’s no
danger to the pilot, since it doesn’t have one.

The loss of the HTV is both a triumph and an embarrassment for the pentagon. While its
existence and flights do represent an incredible breakthrough in aviation, the
communications failure and loss of the aircraft has cost them some prestige and
taxpayers some $320 million dollars.

Prior to the craft’s communication malfunction, it had just reached a speed of 17,000
mph.

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Kal K. Korff is an internationally known author, columnist and investigative journalist.

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