{"id":35878,"date":"2017-04-04T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/hypersonic-attack-drones-by-2040-is-china-in-front-of-the-us-in-developing-hypersonic-weapons"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:25","slug":"hypersonic-attack-drones-by-2040-is-china-in-front-of-the-us-in-developing-hypersonic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/hypersonic-attack-drones-by-2040-is-china-in-front-of-the-us-in-developing-hypersonic-weapons","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic Attack Drones by 2040? Is China In Front of the US in Developing Hypersonic Weapons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypersonic-attack-drones-by-2040-is-china-in-front-of-the-us-in-developing-hypersonic-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US wants to stay in front of China with hypersonic weapons able to travel at five-times the speed of sound and destroy targets with a \u201ckinetic energy\u201d warhead.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force weapons developers expect to operate hypersonic intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance drones by the 2040s, once scientific progress with autonomy and propulsion technology matures to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>The advent of using a recoverable drone platform able to travel at high altitudes, faster than Mach 5, will follow the emergence of hypersonic weapons likely to be operational in the mid-2020s, according to the Air Force Chief Scientist Geoffrey Zacharias.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scout.com\/military\/warrior\/story\/1683130-air-force-sees-hypersonic-attack-drones-2040\">http:\/\/www.scout.com\/military\/warrior\/story\/1683130-air-forc...rones-2040<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US wants to stay in front of China with hypersonic weapons able to travel at five-times the speed of sound and destroy targets with a \u201ckinetic energy\u201d warhead. Air Force weapons developers expect to operate hypersonic intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance drones by the 2040s, once scientific progress with autonomy and propulsion technology matures to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,47,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-neuroscience","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35878","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58185,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35878\/revisions\/58185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}