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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Cool.
Ping.
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.
I’m glad to see us moving forward but hit to kill makes me cringe.
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?
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.
So it hits Dayton instead of Cleveland?
San Jose instead of San Francisco?
Tacoma instead of Seattle?
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.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.
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.
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.
Wasn’t that Simi Valley?
Is there a net to catch these falling missiles?
No nets. But we got these badminton rackets to try and catch the falling missles.
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.
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.
“Rocketdyne”
Whew, that’s a relief. I thought they said “cyberdyne”.
CC
Bakersfield instead of Rancho Cucamonga?
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