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  • Hypersonic cruise missile?

    Past and current cruise missiles are very accurate, but just as slow. That appears to be changing as ATK (Alliant Techsystems) has sucessfully tested a MACH 5.5 scramjet that runs on JP-10 jet fuel instead of exotics;

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    ATK was the contractor for the X-43a scramjet that achieved MACH 9.6 last year, but it burned hydrogen.

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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

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    Feck cruise missiles, I think scramjets are nice way to get you to escape velocity for space/orbital flight.

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