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Gas turbines don’t need a precision aligned shock impinging on an annular intake lip in order to operate. The acceleration for a cruise missile is a fraction of that needed for a ramjet;- so much easier to arc over.Please also remember this episode dates from the mid seventies, the dawn of VLS systems, they had successfully demo a VLS Sea wolf in 1969 (project sinner), but it was not adopted until 27 years later. They didn’t have the fifty years of hindsight that you have
Gas turbines don’t need a precision aligned shock impinging on an annular intake lip in order to operate. The acceleration for a cruise missile is a fraction of that needed for a ramjet;- so much easier to arc over.
Please also remember this episode dates from the mid seventies, the dawn of VLS systems, they had successfully demo a VLS Sea wolf in 1969 (project sinner), but it was not adopted until 27 years later. They didn’t have the fifty years of hindsight that you have
