Flight speed was Mach 0.75
Chinese Engine Development
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yes, I typed that incorrectly. 7.5 would have been quite the engine.
dubbing mistranslated elements involved, which is rhenium and niobium.
You ruined a psy-op.
Guess they can potentially get cruise missile cost bellow 100K USD with this and other innovations.
When someone say cheap cruise missiles I see doritos, flying doritos obscuring the sun.
That depends on the range of the missiles.
i'm curious like what the expected service life of this engine is. Whether this is more for suicide drones or drones that are expected to operate for a few years. Not really sure what the expected service life of the 3D printed parts are.
I think you meant Mach 0.75 in the original tweet? If it is Mach 7.5 TWZ would’ve gone nuts.
中国航发动研所总师办主任米栋表示，本次单发飞行试验成功，表明发动机在更高飞行高度和更复杂环境下的可靠性得到了进一步验证，检验了发动机与飞行器的适配性，可为巡飞弹、无人机、靶机等平台提供新型动力解决方案，展现出良好的应用前景。
The potential platforms aren’t multi-use ones.
The question is whether drone mentioned in there is multi-use drone.
It's entirely possible that this is just referring to single-use drone. In which case, the production cost here likely to be quite low.