Posted on 12/11/2021 9:48:34 AM PST by bitt
The Chinese military is apparently using an abandoned NASA design to develop a 6,000-mph hypersonic nuclear missile engine.
A prototype of the engine has been built and tested using a "radical" American design first proposed over 20 years ago as the country competes to outperform the West in a contemporary arms race, according to a report .
The design was presented by Ming Han Tang, a Chinese American and former chief engineer of NASA's hypersonic program.
Tang's Two-Stage Vehicle X-plane is driven by two different engines and can travel faster than five times the speed of sound.
It was initially set to be tested in the early 2000s by the United States, but the program was cut after it was deemed "too costly."
The Chinese military reportedly views money as "no object" and partnered with Tan Huijun, a professor at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to build a prototype using Tang's blueprints.
"Understanding its work mechanism can provide important guidance to hypersonic plane and engine development," Tan said.
News of the development comes after China recently launched two missiles into space.
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Too busy setting up Americans for fake hate crime, “insurrection” and school board dissent.
Ming Hang Tang could have just gone back to China and presented his idea to his overlords. It could have happened under Bush or Trump, too.
“They’re a country of peasants that are able to pick out a handful of ‘smart’ people”
See how clever that is—create incentives for smart people to excel instead to attacking smart people as destroying “equity”.
China’s leaders are smart—ours are stupid.
Absolutely spot on! The domestic commies deliberately prevent that, though.
I can build a system that works and meets 80-90% of the “requirements” in 2 years. I can design a system that meets all DOD requirements in 7. By the time it passes all the reviews, half the tech is obsolete so back to design phase. Which method is the US using vs the rest of the world. The US is slowly trying to change its acquisition methodology but the beast won’t die until the last of the “acquisition trained zombies” die or retire.
It's a fairly standard practice for "our" gummint to release design details of almost everything they touch and Aviation Week and Space Technology will cheerfully broadcast anything the bureaucrats missed.
The pre-production designs of one military aircraft I worked on back In The Day weren't completely done before we were seeing DETAILED plastic scale model kits in toy stores and hearing rumors about FOIA inquiries about our work from "certain foreign sources".
The only way we could even attempt to go all-out on a classified design project was to go all Skunk Works, lock everything down 500 miles from nowhere and we would still have photographers with megalenses leaking practically every time we'd open a damn hanger door.
Price we pay for having a Free Society. /sarc
Thank you, Bill Clinton!
The US design was not built but it seems Chinese hackers or spies found the design which probably was “Top Secret” in the US military or the US contractor’s file system. All your secrets belong to us - CCP
Not "considered" or "potential". They are.
It is a condition for their being allowed to come here, that they report back to China's intelligence service about EVERYTHING they see which could be of interest to the CCP or China's military.
China’s leaders are smart—ours are stupid.
Interesting isn’t it? China does in fact have leaders. Brutal ones at that. I’m sure there are at least a few of the ‘student spies’ that would rather not be doing what they’re doing, especially after living in the US for a while. I’m betting that back home, lives depend on their loyalty to China and their ability to steal what they can.
On the other hand, we have REPRESENTATIVES that are supposed to look out for us and the country’s best interests. I’d say around 500-510, of the stupidest, greedy and corrupt individuals on the planet.
Guys like John Huang with an office and FAX machine in Clinton’s WH?
How many people will they kill or irradiate trying to get it to work?
Effing Aviation and Space Weekly. I subscribed for years, and last year, I got so damn sick of their wokeness that I cancelled the POS publication.
But they still send it to me. Fine. The one I just got had a big article titled: “A White, Male Service” and has the subhead: “Lack of Diversity Among US Air Force Pilots Leads to Racial and Gender Imbalance At The Top” written by a soy boy at their publication.
Makes me want to puke. They are all focused in with the Communists and Euroweenies now anyway, and are focusing their BS on green aviation.
More stolen technology.🙄
And how about the system that the country really needs, but no requirements have been defined because the acquisition bureaucracy has no imagination [which is merely being overly redundant]. There was no requirement for the P-51 for example.
At least NASA/USA got the leg up on China when it comes to “Muslim outreach”.
China doesn't ALLOW any of their citizens to LEAVE for the U.S. without EXPECTING SOMETHING IN RETURN.
They're ALL spies. It's part of their OATH as Chinese citizens.
No our government has deep pockets and rely on filling them from countries like China
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