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After 25 years, military told to move from “expendable” to “reusable” rockets
- cwkoss 8y agoThese are space rockets. Reusable munitions would be much more challenging and impressive, though.
- dogma1138 8y agoDon’t know just launch all of the current expendable rockets then the only munitions will be using after that would be pretty reusable.
- astrodust 8y agoDear Sr. Taliban Commander, Can you please return our expended munitions? Enclosed is a FedEx account number.
- scienceBomb 8y agoI think it would be splitting hairs to start calling reusable rocket munitions anything other than unmanned aerial drone bombers. Figure you stow such a "rocket" in its launch tube, then, you see a target, lase it (paint/illuminate it with laser guidance target selection) and fire. The rocket launches, zips over to the target with a first stage, zeros directly over head and ejects the explosive payload onto the target, then the second stage fires, launching it skyward, and it returns to a landing pad with a combination of parachute decent, finished off by a balanced retro-rocket vertical landing on tripod legs. Hmmm, are the avionics of guided munitions worth such a level of design complexity?
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