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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by protomyth on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:12PM (#2910304)
The US Air Force understands the concept of high speed spy planes with the SR-71 and knows how to deal with intercept attempts. A slight turn takes the plane well away from harm.

[edit] now if the enemy builds its own with the same speed / range then all bets are off

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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by burgerbrain on Sunday August 21, 2011 @10:08PM (#2910984)
When you're flying in a straight line, which at these speeds this plane, unlike the SR-71, will be doing, it is only a matter of time until another Zoltan Dani comes along and pops it out of the sky.
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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by protomyth on Monday August 22, 2011 @08:48AM (#2912262)
You and all the down voters are crazy if you don't believe this thing can change directions. Looking at the whole D-21 / SR-71 program for what this do.
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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by burgerbrain on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:12PM (#2912924)
Do the math. It will have a turning radius measured in the hundreds of miles.
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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by protomyth on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:57PM (#2913118)
that is still a turn and given the need to line up a shot, just as effective.
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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by burgerbrain on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:34PM (#2913266)
It's a turn wide enough to be effectively a straight line over a good deal of countries. We don't have to calculate out trajectories on the backs of notebooks anymore, we have systems that can do that in milliseconds.

This is just one more in a long line of "unshootable"/"unsinkable" projects which will prove the opposite.

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