Let's be careful. Comments like that are often made about Chinese engineering and we know them to be wrong. The HTV-2 effort was 11 years ago! Much may have changed and blanket statements are rarely a good idea.
Chinese Hypersonic Developments (HGVs/HCMs)
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Let's be careful. Comments like that are often made about Chinese engineering and we know them to be wrong. The HTV-2 effort was 11 years ago! Much may have changed and blanket statements are rarely a good idea.
You have to understand that the US sets the limit on what's physically possible. If the US can't do it, no other country or even alien civilization can do it. That's the real law of physics.
The article mentioned with waverider design it could get up to 6 in theory (I assume for Mach 20 vehicle), it is entirely possible the HTV-2 simply got the wrong shape, or there were unforeseen engineering complications we don't know about. The thing is US then gave up on it, on the other hand China and Russia has been working on it consistently over the last decades, heck China even built a Mach 20+ hypersonic wind tunnel....
I guess thats why we been hearing those silly exclamation of "Physics defying feat".....
Rules of engineering =/= rules of physics. Rules of engineering are broken all the time, that's what cutting edge engineering is all about. What he's saying is basically, China has surpassed the US in this engineering field. If what was proposed on the original tweet is true, which is just speculation.
Who is this guy? Pardon me but his voice is the most English stereotype ever.
I again call attention to a Guancha article I linked in another thread
Chinese Hypersonic Developments (HGVs/HCMs)
https://www.guancha.cn/TSTO/2021_10_19_611343_1.shtml A Guancha article by TSTO of 飞羽社, a well-known aerospace content creator on Bilibili. Basically called the FT report US propaganda to justify its own space-based weapons program. According to TSTO, the FOBS system described by FT is stupid...
www.sinodefenceforum.com
The article mentions KD-114, an air-launched nuclear-capable hypersonic missile designed for China's "newest generation" strategic bomber. The author (a well-known aerospace content creator on Bilibili) claims it flies entirely within the atmosphere and is intended to neutralize US GMD in Alaska.
simply linking the dots: i've read chinese scientists tailking about a Gel that protects the vehicle by ablation or somerthing similar. I've read chinese talking about a laser that breaks the air in fron of an hypersonic vehicle, after some time a chinese hgv does the World Tour travelling in the high atmospher in one hour. In my opinion its completely feasible.
I hope that china and russia will begin to join forces in hypersonic research: Zircon missile in china and china Fobs in russia. The tecnological edge of usa is near to crack
I hope that china and russia will begin to join forces in hypersonic research: Zircon missile in china and china Fobs in russia. The tecnological edge of usa is near to crack
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