Posted on 05/28/2010 11:13:14 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
On Wednesday morning, a US Air Force X-51A Waverider missile sustained speeds of Mach 5 for more than 200 seconds, the US Air Force has announced. The X-51A Waverider, which was launched over the southern California coast, is powered by next-gen scramjet technology.
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Bump
Or give a bucket of cash to the SEIU, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other pals of The Regime.
I’ve been a fan of kinetic energy weapons since I read Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” way back when.
That, along with the original HTTP...the “Hypersonic Tungsten Telephone Pole” or the “Rod from God”....imagine what we could do to Kim Jong Ding Dong’s little toy submarine base if we delivered a 12” diameter by 20’ long solid tungsten telephone pole straight down on it at hypersonic velocity.
You might as well hit them with an frickin’ asteroid...it’ll sure look like it afterwards....
Oh yes. Drop some real ‘roids on them someday too
But you’d get one heck of a wetsuit wipeout rash from the one in the article.
I have my rash guard, And It would be the first jet ski to circumnavigate the globe in 8 hours.
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