Advanced Hypersonic Weapon Fly at Mach 20
Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), a super-smart bomb that could be opening up a can of whoopass on you. It flies many times faster than a speeding bullet, and is certainly more powerful than a locomotive. Its blazing speed of Mach 20 will let it deliver a non-nuclear warhead anywhere on the planet faster thirty minutes or less.
The top speed is actually rumored to be closer to Mach 20, which would allow it to deliver its non-nuclear payload to any point on Earth in less than 30 minutes.
The Army’s Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, lifted by a 34-foot, 36,000-pound rocket, went about 60 percent as far, 2,400 miles from Hawaii to its target by the Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. Darpa’s hypersonic glider had a radical, wedge-like shape: a Mach 20 slice of deep dish pizza, basically.
The top speed is actually rumored to be closer to Mach 20, which would allow it to deliver its non-nuclear payload to any point on Earth in less than 30 minutes.
The Army’s Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, lifted by a 34-foot, 36,000-pound rocket, went about 60 percent as far, 2,400 miles from Hawaii to its target by the Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. Darpa’s hypersonic glider had a radical, wedge-like shape: a Mach 20 slice of deep dish pizza, basically.
U.S. Department of Defense Photo: Missile Defense Agency; U.S. Army
