US set to develop ‘global strike drone’
The so-called Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle, which would be designed to hit targets about 9,000 miles away, should be available by about 2025. Hypersonic means travelling at more than five times the speed of sound.
The goal is to demonstrate a system that could carry out prompt “global reach missions” without using overseas bases, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon’s cradle of new technologies, said in a notice released quietly two weeks ago.
