EADS, UNTERSCHLEISSHEIM, Germany — In October 2003, flew a hypersonic missile developed by EADS/LFK flew for the first time at a speed of over 7 Mach at ground level — that is a speed of approximately 2.3 kilometers per second.
Thus the missile exceeded the speed world record of 6.6 Mach, set up with a similar attempt in the last year.
The successful attempt took place with the test platform HFK E1 on the testing ground of the German WTD-91 military engineering unit in Meppen.
