Posted on 08/20/2019 6:44:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Agreed, unfortunately.
1) No jet fuel.
2) Extremely long range.
3) Extremely fast.
4) Extremely 'dirty' in the radiological sense.
We built a series of nuclear ramjet engines in the 1950's and early '60s, intended to propel a large cruise missile. Back when we were capable of 'thinking big'. They work. The project was canceled because chemically fueled ballistic missiles are cheaper and easier to build and deploy. The laws of physics haven't changed; the state of the art in materials has greatly improved. I'm not surprised the Soviets Russians are trying it. If that's what they're doing.
“That’s the problem with deceptive closed societies. Nobody trusts anything they say .”
Your observation is correct. There’s irony in it, however.
How would you evaluate our society, in the year of Our Lord 2019?
How many institutions retain any trust whatsoever?
Agree. Sensors were going off in Germany very soon after the accident. Nobody at the time believed the propaganda coming out of Moscow either.
I really didn’t get the gravity of the accident until I saw the miniseries. It was excellent.
They would also shine like huge beacons and be vulnerable to simultaneous takedowns by anti missile fire. If the Pentagon deems Russia reaching success with these things the Pentagon will be working hard on countermeasures which will be successfully developed before the Russkies have their devices up. These are not the doomsday weapons the Russians would like us to believe.
Triggered but not necessarily announced.
Still better. We know the crooks are in charge, just can’t do much about it without going right to prison if you know what I mean.
** NEWSFLASH **
Chernobyl wasn’t hidden - it was quite literally The Accident to Too Big to Hide.
THAT ALONE puts whatever is going OUTSIDE that “window”.
Those look like they’d be useful for a rail up a mountain space vehicle launcher. Don’t know why we haven’t developed that yet. The vehicle would already be a couple of miles high and moving at great speed when it finally needs to turn on the burners.
I do know what you mean.
There’s irony in that too. Further irony in not actually being able to come out and say what we actually mean.
I don’t know if it is better. It’s different.
The theme of the ‘Chernobyl’ miniseries was it was the lies that did everybody in.
The root cause reason the reactor literally exploded (didn’t melt down until later, it went off like someone had taken a crate of dynamite and dropped it down a hole in the middle of the reactor):
The tips of the control rods were made of graphite. Control rods are supposed to interfere with a nuclear chain reaction where neutrons fly off and split Uranium nucleii. They are made of Boron.
These control rods, however had graphite tips because graphite could handle the steam better, and it was only the tip. Graphite is used to slow down the neutrons so that they will actually split atoms and not just get absorbed by Uranium 238 and turn to Plutonium 239 (the neutron splits into a proton and an electron to do this).
Chernobyl number 4 was dry, steam was building, the control rods were completely out, and the power was spiking. They hit the panic button, which was supposed to stop the chain reaction cold.
Nobody knew the tips of the control rods were graphite, and when the tips of the control rods went in, it spiked the power and blew the reactor wide open like a bomb. Then the oxygen combined with all the heat and free hydrogen in the core and it exploded again.
But they knew about this problem. The KGB classified the document, erased the scientist who discovered the issue from society, and then redacted the article it first appeared in and re-released it without the bit about RBMK reactors being potential bombs.
The reactor explosion caused all the death, but it was the lie that ensured the thing was going off in the first place.
Disney whistleblower is in the news this AM. Says they’ve been overstating their earnings for years.
We live in an all-time golden age of fraud. We may be different, but only very, very slightly.
As with any ramjet, the engine only produces thrust when the vehicle is moving at high speed. The proposed Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM) would have been boosted with solid rocket motors. Static tests of the engine were performed by preparing huge quantities of compressed air and shoving said compressed air down the engine’s throat, simulating high speed flight.
because it could literally stay airborne for days or longer and able to strike any spot on earth
Absolutely agree. Didn’t mean to imply they were unbeatable. They should be taken out immediately when detected.
Okay. Thanks for the straight answers.
Thanks.
You don’t know what you don’t know, y’know?
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