Army Tests Hypersonic Weapon Over The Pacific

imageBy: Associated Press HONOLULU -- The Army says it has conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound.
The Army said in a news release that it launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon early Thursday from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Lt. Col. Melinda Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman, says the weapon's glide vehicle reached Kwajalein Atoll - some 2,300 miles away - in less than half an hour.
The Congressional Research Service said in a report earlier this year that the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the military's program to develop weapons that would let the U.S. strike targets anywhere in the world with conventional weapons in as little as an hour.
The Air Force is developing a similar vehicle.Read here.