Huh?
My first thought was that he couldn’t be talking about a transporter, because that would be instantaneous.
But my second thought was they were probably using a Windows-based solution, and that’s why it takes most of an hour, because it shuts down to do an update when you try to use it...
Space offers much more than that. It is the ultimate "high ground".
Good luck “up armoring” a space capsule.
Best educated guess as someone who follows science.
1. Teleportation. Yes, they have already teleported subatomic particles, and even molecules. Obviously working the way up to more complex and larger matter. What they report, is probably years behind what has been accomplished.
2. Supersonic aircraft. Supersonic aircraft utility was blocked by sonic booms for common transport. New powerplant designs and new airframe designs likely soon allow high speed launches and landings to cross the globe in under an hour. This may already be a reality.
This is why we have a new branch of the armed services, Space Corp.
Perhaps this is the tech that the navy has been hinting about over the past year.
What would this do to Boeing stock? GM?
What is the energy source?
Looks to me like the market will be doing some serious capital re-allocation over the next 10 years.
The big issues would be that deceleration, the numbers and volume and mass required for a significant number of combatants, their weapons and equipment and some reasonable sustainment.
Just sending a couple of soldiers into space and then landing them somewhere would not be particularly worthwhile. You need mass.
'Technology on the engineering benches today' and 'this technology can be built today' means to me, whatever technology he's talking about is still in the 'development' stage but he believes it can be engineered.
Is he talking 'in theory' or is he claiming the engineering theory has been proven true and CAN be engineered?
Hypersonic. We have that technology since the 60’s and been refining it ever since. Skipping over the atmosphere like a rock skipping over water, fast and versatile.
Kwast is one of the true good guys. Smart, moral, gifted aviator. I’ve known him since the early 90”s.
One thing for sure, I know it’s not solar powered.
I’ve posted it before...
I have a relative who worked for Sandia Labs and Los Alamos. I used to try to pry any morsel of info about cutting edge tech from him, much to his annoyance.
At one point he said...
“You like science fiction, right? Think of where you think we are, add 100 years, and you are getting close.”
Another family member works for the Air Force Research Lab at Kirkland AFB. All we know is that he works with lasers. One day he came home from work visibly stunned. When asked what was the matter, he gave them the “I can’t talk about it” look, but later referred to the “day everything changed.”
I truly believe we are WAY more technically advanced than most people realize. I also believe these technologies are being withheld “for our own good.” Imagine the economic chaos that would ensue if the world had “free” energy. Would the population surpass the earth’s ability to support it if we suddenly had plentiful clean water and food? What if the cost of advanced technology was mandatory sterilized and/or abortion? Could we survive if people lived to be 300 years old? Could an anti-gravity technology become a devastating weapon?
These questions keep me up at night.
He’s talking about making a suborbital arc in something like a Spaceship One. At peak you’re moving many times faster the speed of sound; so you can get anywhere you want on Earth very quickly. It’s not being done because it’s an insanely expensive way to travel.
Government doesn’t do things by sheer accident. The “release” of the video of “tic tacs” performing stunning aerial feats evading US fighter jets wasn’t a fluke. Lay your groundwork for eventual unveiling of advanced technology. Whatever Tesla had in his hotel room after he died and the material seized ended up somewhere. I suspect certain agencies have fantastical technologies that simply cannot be shown the light of day at this time.
Hypersonic tech - already developed, in the process of being made viable for military/commercial use.
There’s a very good reason we haven’t sent a rocket to the “moon” in 50 years.
1. Radiation
2. Radiation
3. Radiation
What he is talking about is at the fringes of space, e.g., communications. The US believes it can win a war with China simply by blinding the leadership and the military units. Once uncontested destruction of several targets are announced to the leadership they will surrender. Furthermore, there are plans to break China up into 19 different provinces or single nation entities to replace the monster of China. Leadership has been identified according to some folks.
Kwast story: I met him just after Gulf War I, I arrived Seymour Johnson AFB and Kwast was a young Lt but clearly even then, he was a great guy. Anyway, I was a Senior pilot (a star on top of the wings), and since I was newly arrived I was number 4 of a flight and Kwast was the flight lead.
Each person had flight planning responsibilities and Kwast assigned me to look up ATC freqs along the route. .so I pulled out the charts and started to locate the freqs and Kwast, an energetic new 4-ship flight lead, he was next to me and then said; “Here, let me show you how to find the freqs” and then took the enroute charts from me and started to instruct me on how to locate the freqs.
I was a Senior Pilot and also an instructor in two previous jets (I know how to find the freqs). I listened to Steve as he explained to me what to look for and such, and it was funny to see him starting to fixate on my wings as he slowly realized I was not some new pilot, just new to the squadron. His instruction eventually stopped. It was obvious he was embarrassed. No problem, I told him, I enjoyed his instruction.
Kwast is a good, Christian man.
For $100,000,000 a shot.
The Military Industrial Complex gotta eat!