At 13,000 MPH, DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 Could Fly From NYC to LA in Under 12 Minutes at Mach 20, Nobody Has Built Anything Faster
DARPA’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) hit roughly Mach 20 — about 13,000 miles per hour or 3.6 miles per second. DARPA claimed the Falcon might fly from New York City to Los Angeles in beneath 12 minutes. Nobody has constructed something sooner than DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2. The Falcon HTV-2 was an unmanned launch…
