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Darpa Maintains Control of Unmaned Aircraft at Mach 20 ...for three whole minutes!
by quarterto 14y ago
Darpa Maintains Control of Unmaned Aircraft at Mach 20
...for three whole minutes!
- elliottkember 14y agoDon't forget, it traveled 650 miles in the process.
- StavrosK 14y agoor 1200 km.
- melling 14y agoSounds like a lot to me. For the first DARPA Grand Challenge, for example, no car finished the race. The farthest went 7 miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2004) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2004) The next year 5 vehicles completed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005) Also, consider all of the rocket failures in the 1960's and we still made it to the moon by the end of the decade.
- sukuriant 14y agoat Mach 20, in our atmosphere with all the things it can collide into, and the latency that it experiences between itself and the ground... that's an incredible feat.