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“They Flew Through Hellfire”: China’s New Heat Shield Shatters Thermal Limits, Unlocking Next-Level Hypersonic Speeds
Rude Baguette - France ^ | July 17, 2025 | Noah Bennett

Posted on 07/17/2025 9:48:01 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: sauropod

review


21 posted on 07/17/2025 11:16:34 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: sauropod

Total propaganda. I nixed this idea over three and a half decades ago and there’s a reason for that. Just an Earth-Bound Misfit...

I remember the Ponderosa TV show as a little kid. Once little Joe went to San Fransisco and was shanghaied by the Chinese. Any Chinese spies caught by America should be immediately executed along with their enablers. Traitor Joe let several go.


22 posted on 07/17/2025 1:49:11 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: OftheOhio

The problem with executing spies is two fold.

1. You can’t question them fudther about their target, their network and whether they had internal help.

2. Corpses have little trade value.


23 posted on 07/17/2025 1:53:16 PM PDT by Reily
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To: SecondAmendment

I know what you are saying, but that line of thinking is going to be real old real quick, if it isn’t already. Meanwhile we have EIGHT DAYS of missiles. After that, it’s nukes


24 posted on 07/17/2025 2:33:23 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Red Badger

I don’t believe any of China’s advancements.
They BS and take even their food and gold.


25 posted on 07/17/2025 2:40:41 PM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: Red Badger

Retired aerospace engineer here.

We researched similar materials in the 1980s. For example, hafnium carbide was one of the heat shielding materials we looked at.

We had problems. How do you attach such shielding to your vehicle? Can the fasteners withstand the temperature? Will the fasteners transmit the heat to the vehicle structure? What insulation can be used?

It’s a complex set of problems.

As for Chinese engineering, yes, they have limitations as a group. But they have some brilliant people as well and graduate a lot of engineers yearly.

Never underestimate your opponents.


26 posted on 07/17/2025 3:40:12 PM PDT by darth
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To: darth

Look at every major American research university and their mathematics, sciences and engineering department staff, fellows and PhD candidates look at the last names of those who are publishing research here a nd doing post doctoral work. They don’t need to steal at all those people are here getting educated and trained then they go home and bring that skill set with them. I teach and do research on the regular half the staff is Chinese or Indian nationals in all the math and sciences. US kids want to do liberal arts, media and law the Asians are all doing pure math and sciences. A country run by Engineers win vs lawyers every time.


27 posted on 07/17/2025 9:08:07 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: Red Badger

Our Chinese food is better then China’s Chinese food.


28 posted on 07/18/2025 1:40:14 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: PIF

That’s what I wondered about. How much of this “amazing breakthrough discovery” is completely the truth & how much is fabricated?


29 posted on 07/18/2025 5:03:15 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: darth

“Never underestimate your opponents.”

Many here seem to........................


30 posted on 07/18/2025 5:51:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: minnesota_bound

Our Chinese food made by MEXICANS is better then China’s Chinese food....................


31 posted on 07/18/2025 5:56:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Everything in China is fake or a lie. They invent nothing.


32 posted on 07/18/2025 6:01:02 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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