Boeing: Boeing and AFRL Demonstrate First-Ever Supersonic Munitions Release

Boeing and AFRL Demonstrate First-Ever Supersonic Munitions Release

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26, 2007 -- A rocket sled employing active flow control successfully releases a MK-82 Joint Direct Attack Munition Standard Test Vehicle from a weapons bay at a speed of about Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) during a test conducted by Boeing Phantom Works and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at the High-Speed Test Track at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. It was the first time that a munition had been released safely from a weapons bay at high supersonic speeds.

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A rocket sled employing active flow control successfully releases a MK-82 Joint Direct Attack Munition Standard Test Vehicle from a weapons bay at a speed of about Mach 2 (Neg#: HIFEX_Test)

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force

Neg #: HIFEX_Test

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