DARPA Picks Boeing to Develop Hypersonic Missile Defense
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6F2KJ)
Boeing will develop and test technologies a hypersonic interceptor prototype for DARPA's Glide Breaker program as part of a four-year effort. Boeing will perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, wind tunnel testing and evaluation of aerodynamic jet interaction effects during flight tests. Hypersonic interceptors will destroy a threat traveling at over five times the speed of ...