US: The US Air Force wants a hypersonic plane for quick bombing missions. The good news: the plane won’t be ready until 2025, so maybe Jenna Bush will inherit 43’s short-sighted genes and attack Paris over lunch because they hurt daddy’s feelings earlier this year. The bad news: a rocket-based version can be operational by 2010:
DARPA and the Air Force share a vision of a new transformational capability that would provide a means of delivering a substantial payload from the continental United States to anywhere on Earth in less than two hours.
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