US Hypersonics - Prompt Global Strike Capability

[quellish]

Gimme a break... the US military wanted to kill, say, Soviet bombers - by firing a missile at them from suborbital / orbital flight ? And Aeolus was NASA borrowing the technology for Mars ?

My mind is completely blown.

Not orbital or suborbital, ballistic missile with hypersonic glide vehicle.

 

[Josh_TN]

Gimme a break... the US military wanted to kill, say, Soviet bombers - by firing a missile at them from suborbital / orbital flight ? And Aeolus was NASA borrowing the technology for Mars ?

My mind is completely blown.

The U.S. military has had more hypersonic projects than the rest of the world combined; it just tended to abandon them in the golden age between when the wall fell and the towers fell. And then the pointless wars began and sucked all the money out of the air.

 

[Archibald]

Thanks for the answers. I've (frantically) downloaded a whole lot of SWERVE and Aeolus papers, and realized that SWERVE was linked to Redding's STAR / Space Cruiser - same shape. That very one. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...technology-and-research-star.1103/#post-80880

It is a classic case of a groundbreaking space technology finding many applications: Swerve, STAR, Aeolus.

Should I post the documents ?