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I'm not sure if it can still be described as 'super secret' if we're reading about it on the official DARPA blog.
by krschultz 15y ago
I'm not sure if it can still be described as 'super secret' if we're reading about it on the official DARPA blog.
- willvarfar 15y agoThe latest missiles and bombers were always paraded to the foreign press in Red Square. Seeing, counting and not knowing is fearing. And at home, its securing funding too, of course.
- hga 15y agoIndeed, nothing about it being secret appears anywhere in the blog posting, prosaic title is: ENGINEERING REVIEW BOARD CONCLUDES REVIEW OF HTV-2 SECOND TEST FLIGHT And it's quite cool; of particular note is their analysis that the improvements prompted by the previous first test allowed the flight control system to keep it stable for a while as the skin was peeling off and creating nasty aerodynamic effects. And I gather they have some real world to provide the materials science types.
- devy 15y agoAccording to this Yahoo! News article: http://news.yahoo.com/super-secret-hypersonic-aircraft-flew-skin-152315621--abc-news-topstories.html http://news.yahoo.com/super-secret-hypersonic-aircraft-flew-... "While the test was very public, the details of the HTV-2's design, stability system and potential purpose remain highly classified."