{"id":90374,"date":"2019-05-07T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/just-in-darpa-hypersonic-vehicle-prototypes-to-fly-in-2019"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:22:28","slug":"just-in-darpa-hypersonic-vehicle-prototypes-to-fly-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/just-in-darpa-hypersonic-vehicle-prototypes-to-fly-in-2019","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Prototypes to Fly in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-in-darpa-hypersonic-vehicle-prototypes-to-fly-in-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two hypersonic vehicle prototypes developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force are due to fly by the end of the year, the agency\u2019s director said May 1.<\/p>\n<p>One vehicle is part of the hypersonic air-breathing weapon concept, or HAWC, program. The other is the tactical boost glide, or TBG, effort, said Steven Walker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on track for both to have flights \u2026 before the calendar year ends,\u201d he told reporters during a breakfast meeting in Washington, D.C. However, that might be questionable because once \u201cyou actually get into the building of these things and qualifying the hardware, \u2026 things tend to slip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2019\/5\/1\/just-in-darpa-hypersonic-vehicle-prototypes-to-fly-in-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hypersonic vehicle prototypes developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force are due to fly by the end of the year, the agency\u2019s director said May 1. One vehicle is part of the hypersonic air-breathing weapon concept, or HAWC, program. The other is the tactical boost glide, or TBG, effort, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90374","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=90374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}