DARPA aims to complete hypersonic demonstrations by 2020

By Leigh Giangreco / May 12, 2016 at 5:15 PM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency could demonstrate technologies by 2020 that would enable the future launch of hypersonic vehicles, according to the agency's Tactical Boost Glide program manager. DARPA teamed up with the Air Force on the Tactical Boost Glide program in 2014 and plans to conduct a flight demonstration to show the agency can mature technologies to an appropriate level sometime before 2020, TBG program manager Peter Erbland told Inside the Air Force during a May 11 DARPA...

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