Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash
by burgerbrain on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:12PM
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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
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that is still a turn and given the need to line up a shot, just as effective.
Re:Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash
by burgerbrain on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:34PM
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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.