The Law of Parsimony says that, if US Naval Research Laboratory has found "discovery of an experimental configuration and flow conditions" enabling greater than Mach 3 atmospheric flight, then other countries' military research programs have also considered, or invented, the same ( as opposed to E.T. visitations ).
From your link: “The only propulsion system that can give you hypersonic speeds is a rocket motor. Now rocket motors are not efficient. We know that because otherwise we’d all be flying to outer space. They are very expensive.” Very expensive means one can’t make a whole fleet. But one could make a few prototypes.
Yes. Just enough to harass and confuse, slip outside the tracking systems calibrated to threats maneuvering at Mach 3 and lower.
*Irresponsible Speculation*: An adversary of the U.S. may wish to hint at superiority and demonstrate a specific threat as a deterrence. The threat here may be that these UAPs slip, subtly, into sensor range of a carrier fleet and elicit an initial response, and then escape at hypersonic speeds. The response either exposes the Navy's sensor capabilities or acts to divert defenses away from a target ( i.e., a carrier ). Deterrence against what? Probably open navigation of the seas in strategic areas, such as the U.S. coastline, preventing large-scale deployments to other regions. If you can't sail a carrier fleet out of San Diego towards Taiwan without being harassed by UAPs, an already shaky response to a CCP takeover would be doomed to fail.
In any case, I wish they'd release *real* information soon because this is such an addictive and distracting topic I'd like to think about something much less speculative!
I noted, with some curiosity, this briefing the other day: https://physicsworld.com/a/frozen-detonation-could-enable-hypersonic-flight/
The Law of Parsimony says that, if US Naval Research Laboratory has found "discovery of an experimental configuration and flow conditions" enabling greater than Mach 3 atmospheric flight, then other countries' military research programs have also considered, or invented, the same ( as opposed to E.T. visitations ).
From your link: “The only propulsion system that can give you hypersonic speeds is a rocket motor. Now rocket motors are not efficient. We know that because otherwise we’d all be flying to outer space. They are very expensive.” Very expensive means one can’t make a whole fleet. But one could make a few prototypes.
Yes. Just enough to harass and confuse, slip outside the tracking systems calibrated to threats maneuvering at Mach 3 and lower.
*Irresponsible Speculation*: An adversary of the U.S. may wish to hint at superiority and demonstrate a specific threat as a deterrence. The threat here may be that these UAPs slip, subtly, into sensor range of a carrier fleet and elicit an initial response, and then escape at hypersonic speeds. The response either exposes the Navy's sensor capabilities or acts to divert defenses away from a target ( i.e., a carrier ). Deterrence against what? Probably open navigation of the seas in strategic areas, such as the U.S. coastline, preventing large-scale deployments to other regions. If you can't sail a carrier fleet out of San Diego towards Taiwan without being harassed by UAPs, an already shaky response to a CCP takeover would be doomed to fail.
In any case, I wish they'd release *real* information soon because this is such an addictive and distracting topic I'd like to think about something much less speculative!
Good point. They are right to be concerned. We will probably know something one way or the other this month.