Hypersonic Weapon, X-51A WaveRider

26 December 2009 — The U.S. Air Force is going to test the X51 Waverider. This specialized aircraft is launched from a B52 and can fly any where in the world within 60 to 90 minutes!



07 April 2010 — The Hypersonic Combined Test Force at Edwards Air Force Base gearing up for the first flight of the X-51A WaveRider flight test vehicle in the spring of 2010. The flight vehicle is expected to reach speeds of mach 6 or better! Thats 6 times the speed of sound, or 4070 MPH. This is the first video of the flight vehicle being released. Produced by Dawn Waldman.



U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes
By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
Published: April 22, 2010 The New York Times

WASHINGTON — In coming years, President Obama will decide whether to deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an hour and with such accuracy and force that they would greatly diminish America’s reliance on its nuclear arsenal.
The Obama administration has acceded to a demand by Russia that the United States decommission one nuclear missile for every one of these conventional weapons fielded by the Pentagon.
That provision, the White House said, is buried deep inside the New Start treaty that Mr. Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev signed in Prague two weeks ago.