U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon

Re:U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon by Robotbeat on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:24AM (#32151952)

So just regeneratively cool that portion like you would in a rocket engine (or an ablative or whatever). No big deal.

Why this assumption that aerospace engineers are just idiots and they didn’t think about designing it to last longer than thermal soak?

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Re:U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon by superkuh on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:57AM (#32152426)

You can read the full reasoning here as it is too long to fit in a HN comment: https://exrocketman.blogspot.com/2022/06/about-hypersonic-ve...

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Re:U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon by nautilius on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:51AM (#32153415)

Your only comment about heat load is that it's the most important factor and then I should look at some picture. There's zero reasoning in that picture.

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Re:U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon by Robotbeat on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:38AM (#32153120)

Read it. None of that justifies the absurd claim that no materials exist and therefore they can only fly to thermal soak.

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