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The U.S. Military’s Next Fear: Fighting Hypersonic Everything
https://nationalinterest.org ^ | November 14, 2020 | by Kris Osborn

Posted on 11/14/2020 6:53:01 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

Hypersonic attack drones will definitely exist, the question simply is when. The prospect of surveillance drones or armed unmanned systems catapulting through space at five times the speed of sound, is already on the radar at high levels at the Pentagon.

ypersonic attack drones will definitely exist, the question simply is when. The prospect of surveillance drones or armed unmanned systems catapulting through space at five times the speed of sound, is already on the radar at high levels at the Pentagon.

“You can think of autonomy and hypersonics being integrated in the way you fly vehicles and the things you might do with those vehicles,” Mike E. White, Assistant Director for Hypersonics, Office of The Undersecretary of Defense For Research and Engineering, told reporters according to a Pentagon transcript. After all, successful attacking at hypersonic speeds will hinge upon fast-adapting, reliable guidance systems and ISR. Many newer kinds of sensors already bring an ability to help weapons course correct or change course in flight, and in future war it will be crucial to attack with the capability of doing this at hypersonic speeds.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; chatforum; fearpers; fud; hopeless; hypersonic; propaganda
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1 posted on 11/14/2020 6:53:01 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19
What could possibly go wrong?


2 posted on 11/14/2020 6:55:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Pessimists see difficulty in opportunity; optimists see opportunity in every difficulty. Churc)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Skynet smiles.


3 posted on 11/14/2020 6:57:43 PM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The subject needs some DNA enhancement to give him a second pair of arms to handle weapons.


4 posted on 11/14/2020 7:06:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RomanSoldier19

“The U.S. Military’s Next Fear...”
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The U.S. Military has no “fear”.
They have plans, redundant plans, secret plans,
and double secret probation redundant plans.


5 posted on 11/14/2020 7:09:11 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Solution: an orbiting satellite laser, problem solved.


6 posted on 11/14/2020 7:09:33 PM PST by Fungi
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To: RomanSoldier19

Chuck Yeager says, you think they invented this shit?


7 posted on 11/14/2020 7:14:52 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Bkmk


8 posted on 11/14/2020 7:21:02 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

https://today.tamu.edu/2020/10/26/texas-am-system-to-lead-consortium-on-advancing-hypersonic-flight-systems/


9 posted on 11/14/2020 7:42:52 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Fungi
Rods of God work just fine.
10 posted on 11/14/2020 7:49:19 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, crhances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: Repeal The 17th

The U.S. Military has no “fear”.
They have plans, redundant plans, secret plans,
and double secret probation redundant plans.

Also plans that don’t exist because they are black


11 posted on 11/15/2020 9:54:23 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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