DARPA HTV-2 flight caught on video

[1H7P5199]

FANTASTIC!!!! - We are on top again, now NO ONE can fuck with us anywhere in the world ever again, this means that within 1 hour we can send a greeting to any enemy wherever they may hide without risking any US lives. This is a Great Milestone and WELL WORTH WHATEVER IT COSTS!!!!!

BRAVO 1,000 Times to the DARPA Staff who developed this vehicle.

[CaMaRo1RoC89]

@1H7P5199 yeah your right. only one problem. it doesnt work!

[A7Xopuzen]

Ohh there went my cumshot :D

[MenyBFRXXV]

That's ridiculous slow !!!!!! They talking about 20+mach.

So u can have an idea.....

[dawatcher9]

that's pretty damn slow compared to what i seen on a clear night but then again this is for the sheep not the wolves

[bweazel]

Fuck me, that glider is booking it. Well done.

[pompoyitaa]

AWESOME

[Frosttty]

You know there's better video of this somewhere. Just think of the cameras that film the space shuttle even as it's 100km in altitude.

[darkskoliro]

who else expected some massive flare going out in the clouds O_O

[TheDreamcookie]

impossible.......nothing is faster than chuck norris ^_^

[jpl3119]

Annndddd its gone....

[xman2008]

Question, how soon 'til we can ride in it without crapping our brain out?

[lrcdert2010]

Low fly pass by?Anyone else agree

[KimbaLovexx]

Oh wow this is SO interesting.

[yourleaderDrChaos]

This is the ridiculous stuff I love DARPA for. It's like if being insane or retarded is a requirement there for getting hired.

[StonedAssassinNZL]

Noobs GET TO DA CHOPPER AGGGGGGGGARRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHH

[xllClouDllx]

millions of dollars wasted, that money could of went to africa not impressed DARPA not impressed at all..

[icannotfly]

holy SHIT that thing is fast!

[neko9]

Smoke and mirrors program with already obsolete tech.

[ltkitty4]

Wow, lots of haters out there.

[BobCat981]

what happened? aliens captured it, rolled few joints (coz its legal there - smart folks) and now they're laughing at earth's high tech craft :)

[reyo88]

@BobCat981 What you got against medicinal marijuana?

[BobCat981]

@reyo88 nothing, but even medicinal isn't legal in some countries, like mine :(

regardless of medical needs or personal use, it should be legal for everyone everywhere :)

[reyo88]

@BobCat981 Yeah i live in new zealand and it aint legal here medicinally or recreationally. Should be though, if the world just legalizes it and tax's it, alot of problems would be solved :/ :)

[blackazdiamond]

@reyo88 even medicinally? and they make prostitution legal there.. fucked up much?

[junitono1]

expensive rocket with no tracking equipment?

[WeBeGood06]

What a waste of money, DARPA spends all those millions of dollars and then uses a hand held video camera with terrible resolution. Go buy a long range camera next time, if there is a next time. DARPA should be defunded if they can;t get better pictures than this.

[junitono1]

@WeBeGood06

Hey artard, this was shot by a crew member with a handheld camera.

I just love how people complain about something, when the answer is right in the description. I guess reading a few sentences is too much for some folk.

[dan428]

@WeBeGood06 Pretty sure the footage Darpa used internally isn't what we're seeing on youtube.. it's just what some guy on a ship caught on cam

[SmashingTheIE2011]

Are we at war with aliens?

[wildone106]

@SmashingTheIE2011 We already have technology far advanced of this.Its just to placate congress/the public into thinking we're going on a traditional technological progression..when in reality we quantum leaped 60 years ago..

[MegaDev2010]

Retards

[saintpatrickw]

Darpa... more like Derpa. How do you lose a hypersonic aircraft?

[ltkitty4]

@saintpatrickw they cranked the speed up to 11 and it hit plaid.

[duackduack]

Build a rudicilously expensive rocket then lose it...

harpdarpa

[ltkitty4]

@duackduack It's not a rocket...

[bweazel]

@duackduack Gotta crawl before you can walk, bro. From the look of this video, it doesn't look like they lost anything.

[danocide]

@duackduack you just trolled the government :D

[ooogooogooooooog]

@duackduack lololol darpa got herpderp.

[roidroid]

Oh i see what they're saying now.

@ 0:17 they're saying that the HTV-2 completely separated from it's booster rocket here, and what you can visibly see here is actually the rocket (not the HTV-2).

...which is why the circle at 0:32 is not where you'd intuitively expect - i suppose it's the "predicted" location of the HTV-2 at the time. Coz as far as i'm concerned the 0:32 circled part in this video shows absolutely nothing. Maybe it's one of those "the emperor has no clothes" things i dunno.

[roidroid]

When i heard the flight was unsuccessful, i never expected to ever see footage of it.

So this is quite something to see this.

[nicodalimonte]

omg UFO

[tusharsingal]

this is amazing

[beatsiz]

That is incredibly fast in case anybody hasn't taken the time to watch planes cross the sky... Some of my time lapses show that even with one second representing a minute that it can take up a lot of time.

[AntiTrendsetter]

the guy recording was like "where tha F did it go!"

[bkwilsey]

Wow! That was about as exciting as watching paint dry.

[sunnysang]

Into the third dimension it went...

[Calculon64]

Million$ wasted and they didn't even bother to hire a professional videographer to capture the damn thing fly missing into oblivion?

Looks like an 8 year old was holding the camera.

Did the physics engineers that built this shit ever even flown a kite?

[blondecrazygaijin]

reaction words.