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Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by niels_olson on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:38PM (#2910374)
"highly maneuverable" is an odd term here. What's the radius of an 8 g turn at mach 20? 555 km. The diameter is slightly smaller than the N-S length of California.
Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash by demallien on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:48AM (#2911742)
Sure, but by the same reasoning, you don't need to change your heading by more than a fraction of a degree before the interceptor has to massively change it's intercept trajectory. A scramjet powered missile randomly making slight adjustments around the desired trajectory would make it extremely difficult to intercept.