built this.
Posted on 09/29/2008 8:05:04 PM PDT by Flavius
Mach 5 refers to 5 times the speed of sound.
Haven’t we been researching & developing scramjet projectiles too? Seems like I read about it 5 years ago.
Or an Airborne Laser Weapon System.
Got to hit me (hit me)
Hit me (hit me)
Hit me with those laser beams
Laser beam
(One, two)
Relax
Don’t do it
Relax
When you want to come (Come)
Before the Russians (as usual) start pounding on their chests, maybe they should invite the US to even attempt to shoot it down..instead of grandstanding like Chavez, who couldn;t seem to shut up about us (maybe because he’s in love with Bush).
Only if you’re shooting after it with something typically slower that needs to catch up with it. Of course if you’re shooting at it on the receiving end (the whole point - it will be coming AT you not away from you), an intercept projectile can calculate the projected intercept point regardless of how fast it’s going. So, ridiculous claim.
There are a few smart people, some in India, working on this. They need to be eliminated. The Mossad killed the fellow who was building the “big gun” pointing at Isreal in Iraq. The CIA should set up a heart attack, maybe in the hookers arms, for the lead guy. Number 2 should die in a traffic accident the next day. Number 3 could drown, like Bill Casey, in a lilly pond. Number 4 should die of electrocution in a freak accident in his kitchen.
That will pretty much put joint Indian-Russian hyper missle programs to bed.
“That takes fuel, lots of it. So does flying at supersonic speed which takes MUCH more fuel. Something wrong with this picture....if this thing does fly at Mach 2.5 it can only be for a very short time, probably at the terminal point of its flight.....”
I worked on a team doing a concept design for something similar, also a Mach 5 missile. It used a scramjet engine, which is a highly efficient jet engine that uses very little fuel once it is up to its cruising speed. I think the planned range was for at least 1,000 miles. You have to launch it from a supersonic airplane just to get the engine started, though, which is a difficult proposition to begin with.
The technology exists to do most of this (for example, scramjets have been around since the late 50’s) but there are many, many hurdles to overcome. Heat is a huge factor with this type of craft, and making an airframe which can survive such high temps hasn’t been solved AFAIK. There’s also lots of issues with finding sensors that can update fast enough when flying at such extreme speeds to keep the missile in stable flight and guided to target.
I’ve mentioned only a couple of issues which have to be faced with something like this, and there are many others. It is a truly daunting task to design and build a missile like that, and I seriously doubt they will be successful. They will probably decide their money is better spent elsewhere.
Irrelevant. First THEL doesn't actually work -- see the Hezbollah War for proof.
Second, the THEL has to paint the warhead for a sufficient amount of time before it heats up enough to explode. If it's moving faster, it'll have less exposure time before the laser is out of range.
Third, THEL is extremely vulnerable to countermeasures. So even if THEL worked as designed, and you were able to paint a hypersonic target, it would still be easy to cover an incoming warhead with a reflective coating.
Just need to explode some chaff in front of it. The kinetic energy will take it out. Also, can’t out run a laser.
An AMRAAM is ~ MACH 4.
built this.
LOL, at least they know it the “other left” now.
Cant burn that fast that long, would have to be huge to contain the fuel
so, would have to be fired close in, within 15 miles or so to maintain that speed for that flight
Indian universities also give graduate degrees to 350,000 engineers... each year. The country may have lots of problems, but a lack of intelligent, capable people isn't one of them.
I worked with a guy that did a finite analysis program for a scramjet engine. It’s capable of MACH 15 I think. It doesn’t even work until MACH 7. Of course it has to go very high for those speeds.
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/f_scramjets.html
Does this mean that if the Russian Army isn’t able to get the missiles to work properly that they’ll have to get on the telephone with “technicians” from Calcutta?
I wonder if they speak Russian the same way they speak English? Will they have Russian names too?
I shouldn’t have used that picture/link. The point wasn’t that specific system, but the fact that “uninterceptable” is actually a relative term.
“Cant burn that fast that long, would have to be huge to contain the fuel”
Scramjet engine.
See my post #28.
"Oooh. I'm solly to hear that the missile has exploded from that last step. Ok. Now let's try to reboot it..."
Wasn’t that five fried chickens?
It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.
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