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From the DARPA press release for HAWC test:
Also, your link indicates that the testing in questions was specifically to test the booster? They didn't claim it was a successful test of the glide body and actually just be a booster phase.
Arrw is boost glide and hawc is HCM.
Arrw tested the booster and hawc tested a scramjet.
In comparison to china which has tested boost glide waveriders for over a decade now and put several into service since 2019... not to mention recently publicly revealed a test of a combined cycle engine. Oblique detonation engine, scramjet to china is a yawnfest. Something mastered and bored with for years. It is quite incredible how much lead china has in not only the aerodynamics side of hypersonics but also engines. Both nations had roughly similar starting times with theorising back in the 1970s and 80s. This is certainly a field the US didn't embark on well before china and so a lead by china is honestly to be expected.
Arrw tested the booster and hawc tested a scramjet.
In comparison to china which has tested boost glide waveriders for over a decade now and put several into service since 2019... not to mention recently publicly revealed a test of a combined cycle engine. Oblique detonation engine, scramjet to china is a yawnfest. Something mastered and bored with for years. It is quite incredible how much lead china has in not only the aerodynamics side of hypersonics but also engines. Both nations had roughly similar starting times with theorising back in the 1970s and 80s. This is certainly a field the US didn't embark on well before china and so a lead by china is honestly to be expected.
Maybe we can see similar improvements in the Z-10 in the future?But this seems to have little to do with this topic.
I really can't imagine that the new tank design in the United States is so bad.
Aluminum armor means that MPF cannot be used as a tank at all.
Aluminum hull means it can't use ERA? I also know that aluminum is much lower melting and more malleable than steel so it it easy to damage with both kinetic penetration and explosive damage.
I thought it had a rolled steel hull with the possibility for composite and era add-ons? The weight alone would indicate steel.
I could be wrong. I took my information from the ASCOD which the Griffin (MFP) is based on. According to wiki, the ASCOD has rolled steel armour, options for ERA and composites.
“The turret is of aluminum alloy armor construction. ”I was quite shocked when I saw this paragraph.
A lot of news is currently highlighting the similarity of the turret to the Abrams tank,but they don't even mention that it's aluminum armor.
I haven't paid attention to MPF, so I'm surprised to know this.Now I can understand why the U.S. Army is unwilling to call MPF a tank.
In the discussion on Zhihu, many people ridiculed that Americans should use design schemes based on T-55 or T-64.
Thanks for the post. I had read that the Griffin-TD which had the 120mm cannon had an aluminum turret, but with the talk of the Abrams based turret I thought it was likely steel as well. Seems like a steel hull and aluminum turret.