Nova americka letelica na 20 Mach brzineUskoro se očekuje testiranje nove DARPA-ine letelice - HTV-2 na brzinu od 20 mahova.. Svaki cilj na zemlji dostignut za manje od 60 min. Zanimljiv koncept, ali ko će to da vozi.
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..Yet despite the aircraft’s potentially revolutionary role — and despite the tens of millions of dollars poured into the Falcon program every year — Darpa was somewhat cavalier in its first test of HTV-2. The HTV-2 has an unusual, wedge shape; think of it like a 13,000 mph slice of deep-dish pizza. In theory, the shape should provide more lift. But few people had flown anything quite like the HTV-2 at these intense speeds before....
Izvor : http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/pentagons-mach-20-missile
Naravno, ima i nekih neugodnosti
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..The Defense Department is pursuing three different families of technologies to accomplish the task. One is to rearm nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles with conventional warheads. But that runs the risk of accidentally triggering a response from another atomic power, who might mistake it for a nuke. Oops..
A Lockheed Martin je umešan ko po običaju.. Izgleda im onaj kvantni računar ipak služi nečemu..
Neka razmišljanja na temu potencijalnih odgovora od Rusije i Kine (i ostale ekipice po svetu)?
