As the United States races to close the gap with China in the development of wartime technology, the Pentagon has successfully completed test-flights of a reusable hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, according to The Wall Street Journal.

It’s the U.S. military’s first hypersonic flight of a reusable aircraft in more than 50 years.

The Defense Department said on Monday that the fully-autonomous flights were conducted from the Mojave Desert in December and March and exceeded five times the speed of sound.

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