Welcome to the jungle - US super/hypersonic programs

a reply to: mightmight

Ta.

a reply to: Zaphod58

I do think the guy got a little excited and started connecting dots. I also agree Zaph, I do think that the Naval Base Ventura County (Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory) that will open in 2021 - which will have the testing area over the west coast over water is probably where the majority of the testing will take place.

a reply to: pigsy2400

There's also a lot of laser based communications testing going on right now. Both the NASA facility and the Intel facility would make more sense for testing that than testing an aircraft based laser channel.

originally posted by: 772STi
a reply to: Robbo2006

Cool, video to start the day, very interesting to say the least. Had no idea we were in partnership with brazil on this kind of level. At the same time I really don't see what they would contribute. Why would we share such advanced tech with them. But the 17 second 440 mile lightning bolt was interesting.

Now the claim is aircraft fire lasers infront of them to superheat the atmosphere and thus can obtain more speed. But this seems counter intuitive. If the issue at high speeds is the heat of the atmosphere, then how would shooting a laser to superheat the atmosphere allow the craft through faster? You would think you would want to cool the atmosphere down infront of you. But at those speeds and the many unknowns in could be a double negative type situation.

Either way like I said thanks for sharing nice little gem to start the day

There is now a thread here by Summer5 with another yt vid about this same topic, www.abovetopsecret.com...

a reply to: Zaphod58

NASA is using a columnated xray beam for communications in space, they are testing it on the ISS as we speak

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Current Hypersonic Weapon Projects:



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HiFire has been in the works for a few years now.

a reply to: Blackfinger

Check your messages.

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a reply to: anzha
New or old?
AFRE

a reply to: Blackfinger

In process, iirc. Zaph can probably speak to that more than I.

Futur program to watching for " MAYHEM".

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a reply to: Blackfinger

It's both. AFRE has been running since at least 2016. Various TBCC programs have been running off and on for longer.

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the US Army hypersonic missile will have a range of at least 1,775 miles.