New York to LA in Less Than 12 Minutes

The US military is readying a test flight of an unmanned hypersonic aircraft capable of reaching any target in the world in less than an hour.

Designed by the military research group DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the triangular wedge of zoom is capable of reaching Mach 20, which is approximately 13,000 miles per hour (3.6 miles per second), according to the agency.

The test of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, called HTV-2, is slated for Thursday between 10aET and 4pET from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.  

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/new-york-to-la-in-less-than-12-minutes/?hpt=hp_c2