Posted on 06/30/2015 1:54:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
The plasma front may be protective against lasers !
We don’t know what the Military Industrial Complex is developing at any given moment from the Skunk Works. They may be working on a ‘futuristic’ engine that will go Mach 10 for all we know right now. Or a Anti-Gravity device that will make all other forms of transport obsolete, who knows?..........................
When they first introduced the f 86 in korea, it would dive fast enough on a power on dive to catch up to and run into it’s own fired bullets.
Here is a great technical publication on Hyperburners and the development of Hypersonics:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050196667.pdf
Now I have the opening theme stuck in my head....
Occasionally I can find it in espanol on Univision here, “Donde esta Corredor X?”
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