Defense industry is afraid of testing hypersonics, lacks test infrastructure
Here’s an interesting bit from SecDef Llyod Austin’s meeting with more than a dozen hypersonic defense contractors: During the meeting, multiple CEOs described the need […]
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Is DoD starting to bridge the valley of death?
… funding for Advanced Components Development and Prototypes (6.4 funding) has increased from 20.4% of total RDT&E funding in 2012 to 30.2% in the enacted […]
How the DOD failed to follow up on hypersonics decades ago
The key technology for hypersonic air-breathing propulsion at higher flight Mach numbers is the supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet). In this device, injection of hydrogen fuel […]
Putin takes pride in Russia’s defense acquisition
What is curious and what we should certainly pay attention to and take pride in is that despite the modest military spending we not only […]