USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams

cold fjord writes "It looks like another milestone for hypersonic flight has been reached. From the story: 'The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program has accomplished a breakthrough in the development of flight reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean . . ."It was a full mission success," said Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate. The cruiser traveled over 230 nautical miles in just over six minutes over the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center Sea Range. It was the longest of the four X-51A test flights and the longest air-breathing hypersonic flight ever. . . This was the last of four test vehicles originally conceived when the $300 million technology demonstration program began in 2004. The program objective was to prove the viability of air-breathing, high-speed scramjet propulsion. The X-51A is unique primarily due to its use of a hydrocarbon fuel in its supersonic combustion ramjet, or Scramjet, engine. ... The use of logistically supportable hydrocarbon fuel is widely considered vital for the practical application of hypersonic flight.'"

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Re:Goodness me! Was that a Whooosh?

[Alex Belits]

So you have your own atrocities then to account for. During the time of Stalin we saw as much as10 million dead in various purges and famines, and that's just one example.

Nice tricks, combining natural disasters with actual victims of Stalin's rule. At least you have tried to disguise the real number of Stalin's victims -- about 2 millions, over 30 years, in the country of almost 200 millions at the time -- less than most shitty leaders that Americans touted as heroes.

However my point is, I owe you, or your ancestors NOTHING as far as their disgusting behavior in WWII, and specifically their bombing of civilians was concerned. It was pointless massacre, performed because it was easy, and it looked like fighting a war, however it was not nearly as risky as actually taking some territory, or disabling some infrastructure, leave alone, killing people who are actually fighting for Nazi.

Writing a paper about weapons and claiming that it was poor precision that caused Americans to bomb civilians in their homes, tens and hundreds miles away from anything military-related, is pure idiocy that reveals militant denial of monstrous idiocy committed in the past.