SearchDemocracy LinksMember's Off-site Blogs |
New US Military (Space) flight tests at WoomeraThis September the US Air Force, with NASA providing back up, plans to begin testing their new HiFire jets at Woomera. Described as the "jewel in the crown" of scramjet technology, (HiFire is an acronym for Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation) their anticipated short-term application is much faster cruise missiles. It will be pretty cool if Woomera has the capability to detect targets (as the Narrungar base did with Scud launchers in Gulf War !) and knock them off with missiles flying at eight times the speed of sound. In the long term the project is hoped, according to its director, " to enable operationally responsive space access." The USAF says that "Hypersonic capability is of interest to the Air Force for its ability to enable "game changing" operations that exploit speed and responsiveness in both near- and far-term applications."
|
User login |
Recent comments
34 min 58 sec ago
38 min ago
8 hours 43 min ago
10 hours 55 min ago
11 hours 9 min ago
15 hours 21 min ago
18 hours 45 min ago
18 hours 54 min ago
18 hours 6 min ago
20 hours 37 min ago