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DARPA Loses Hypersonic Vehicle, Goes From $320M to Zero in*2,700 Seconds - FoxNews.com
I'm split on this one... I'm bothered that this much has been spent on a currently failing project, yet if they eventually succeed I can only imagine we'd be saving billions more per year if politicians view this vehicle as a reason to close many of the military bases we have all over the world. What would be the point of having bases all around the world when we can attack anywhere on Earth within an hour anyways?
However, I am skeptical that some military advocates would go along with this hypothetical plan...
DARPA funds low probability research. Meaning that it's research not likely not net anything. But it's funded because you never quite know with science. If it were all known before the experiments were done, there'd be no need for experiments.