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DARPA to develop hypersonic 'Glide Breaker' that would knock missile threats out of the sky
Fox News ^ | 02/25/2020 | Christopher Carbone

Posted on 02/25/2020 6:49:43 PM PST by Olog-hai

The U.S. Defense Department has awarded a multimillion-dollar contract for a system that would knock threatening missiles out of the sky.

A company called Aerojet Rocketdyne was awarded $19.6 million to develop “enabling technologies” for the system, which will be known as Glide Breaker, it said earlier this month.

“Advancing hypersonic technology is a national security imperative,” Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and president, said in a statement. “Our team is proud to apply our decades of experience developing hypersonic and missile propulsion technologies to the Glide Breaker program.”

The Glide Breaker program is part of America’s efforts to counteract hypersonic vehicles, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). …

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aerojetrocketdyne; darpa; departmentofdefense; dod; glidebreaker; hypersonic; hypersonicmissile; hypersonicmissiles; hypersonicweapon; hypersonicweapons; rocketdyne
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1 posted on 02/25/2020 6:49:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Cool.


2 posted on 02/25/2020 6:54:11 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: KC_Lion; rktman

Ping.


3 posted on 02/25/2020 6:56:44 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes! Good work. Naysayers will come as concern trolls against that program, as they have against others. Very similar defense systems eventually tested successfully in series and are active.


4 posted on 02/25/2020 7:10:49 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Olog-hai

I’m glad to see us moving forward but hit to kill makes me cringe.


5 posted on 02/25/2020 7:14:41 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader

I don’t think it’s hit to kill, sounds more like fly by hypersonic and let the shock waves do the rest.

A Mach 1 sonic boom can break windows miles away. What would happen to something hypersonic that can barely be controlled when a Mach 7 boom slaps it sideways to its path?


6 posted on 02/25/2020 7:30:14 PM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Olog-hai

Rocketdyne, Rocketdyne, now where do I know that company from? Oh yeah, they’re the ones that melted down the test reactor above Silicon Valley and contaminated a bunch of people along with Stanford University and then covered it up for 40 years. Oh well, progress.


7 posted on 02/25/2020 7:35:49 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: null and void

So it hits Dayton instead of Cleveland?
San Jose instead of San Francisco?
Tacoma instead of Seattle?


8 posted on 02/25/2020 7:37:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Army Air Corps
Nice. 🚀
9 posted on 02/25/2020 7:37:57 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: VTenigma

Can’t find the event you’re referencing. You talking about the Santa Susana sodium reactor experiment? That was done by Atomics International, which was acquired by Rocketdyne after that.


10 posted on 02/25/2020 7:45:20 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: VTenigma

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.


11 posted on 02/25/2020 7:54:56 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: VTenigma

Uh, no.

Rocketdyne operated a reactor in Moorpark, roughly 50 miles from LA, and 350 miles from Stanford. An incident occurred in 1959. Rocketdyne issued “...a press release, a motion picture and reports to the public following the 1959 incident.”

See the Wikipedia article. An impartial reader will notice that the left has constantly tried to make a big issue of the incident, and the scientific evidence is that there was very little measurable radiation released.


12 posted on 02/25/2020 8:17:33 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No, so the stresses of hypersonic flight shatter it when it flips off axis to its path.

Right now with the very best flight controls it’s all anyone can do just to achieve straight line flight.


13 posted on 02/25/2020 8:35:16 PM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: VTenigma

Wasn’t that Simi Valley?


14 posted on 02/25/2020 8:36:15 PM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Olog-hai

Is there a net to catch these falling missiles?


15 posted on 02/25/2020 8:39:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: a fool in paradise

No nets. But we got these badminton rackets to try and catch the falling missles.


16 posted on 02/25/2020 8:50:38 PM PST by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
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To: Olog-hai

METAL STORM type weapons on artillery and on large planes that are based, and can take off of artificial islands off the coasts. Cheap and effective.


17 posted on 02/25/2020 9:25:40 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: Darteaus94025

Atomics International was a division of North American Aviation (NAA) when the reactor incident occurred in 1959. The reactor was located in NAA’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) located in the hills between San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley.
Rocketdyne (also a division of NAA) also tested rocket engines in SSFL in a different location at the time. Atomics International was merged into Rocketdyne much later.


18 posted on 02/25/2020 9:45:14 PM PST by tony549 (Stuck in SoCal)
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To: Olog-hai

“Rocketdyne”

Whew, that’s a relief. I thought they said “cyberdyne”.

CC


19 posted on 02/25/2020 10:05:53 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Bakersfield instead of Rancho Cucamonga?


20 posted on 02/25/2020 10:07:47 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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