The supersonic car Bloodhound was able to break its previous record, accelerating to a speed of 790 km per hour, reports the Air Force.

On Tuesday, this arrow-shaped vehicle raced for the sixth time across the surface of the dried-up Lake Hakskin-Pan in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.

During each run, driver Andy Green squeezes out of the car a little more than the previous one, receiving data that will allow you to go over the sound barrier and overcome the speed record on land, which is now 1228 km per hour.

However, this will not happen before 2020, when the car will be equipped with a rocket engine..

Bloodhound accelerates to 742 km / h last week. This put her in third place in the list of British super-fast cars after Thrust2, which broke the record in 1983, and the Thrust SSC car, which in 1997 under the direction of Andy Green set a world record of 1,227.9 km / h.