Comment by sneak
6 years ago
Fast for fifty years ago, maybe. I wish they’d tell us about the cool stuff they built in the 80s or 90s.
6 years ago
Fast for fifty years ago, maybe. I wish they’d tell us about the cool stuff they built in the 80s or 90s.
Well fast aircraft sort of lost their purpose once satellites got good, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find out they stopped caring about manned, fast aircraft with the SR-71.
Okay, what cool hypersonic suborbital drones do they have? Are any satellite-launched?
They don't and they're not.
Look at the defense allocations for basic research into hypersonic capable materials to prove that they are still years away the most basic deployment and once the research is done, there is no supply base to make the materials (FA8650-20-S-5003)
"Fast for fifty years ago . . ."
How many aircraft today can fly horizontally over 2,000 mph?
". . . maybe."
It may have been fast 50 years ago?