{"id":172149,"date":"2023-09-16T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/boeing-to-test-darpas-upcoming-glide-breaker-hypersonic-interceptor"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:22:53","slug":"boeing-to-test-darpas-upcoming-glide-breaker-hypersonic-interceptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/boeing-to-test-darpas-upcoming-glide-breaker-hypersonic-interceptor","title":{"rendered":"Boeing to test DARPA\u2019s upcoming \u2018Glide Breaker\u2019 hypersonic interceptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boeing-to-test-darpas-upcoming-glide-breaker-hypersonic-interceptor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen Boeing to develop a prototype and conduct flight testing of its upcoming Glide Breaker hypersonic interceptor. An interceptor is a weapon designed to destroy other missiles mid-flight before they reach their targets. Glide Breaker is a planned huge leap forward in missile interceptors, as it\u2019s designed to target the highly maneuverable class of weapons known as hypersonic glide vehicles, which are able to execute abrupt \u201czig-zag\u201d maneuvers as they glide unpowered through Earth\u2019s atmosphere at speeds of Mach 5 and higher. (Mach 1 is the speed of sound \u2014 about 767 mph, or 1,234 kph, at sea level.) This combination of speed and maneuverability makes such weapons much harder to defend against than traditional missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen Boeing to develop a prototype and conduct flight testing of its upcoming Glide Breaker hypersonic interceptor. An interceptor is a weapon designed to destroy other missiles mid-flight before they reach their targets. Glide Breaker is a planned huge leap forward in missile interceptors, as it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}