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Flight performance characteristics of vehicles are held back by meatbags in it and forces acted upon it.
by Keyframe 3y ago
Flight performance characteristics of vehicles are held back by meatbags in it and forces acted upon it.
- H8crilA 3y agoFor hypersonics it's more about not melting the airframe, regardless of whether there are any people inside or not. That's why I'm skeptical for such vehicles - unless they're disposable, of which there already are plenty (like the penetration aids installed in MIRVs). China seems (seems!) to be leading the pack here with their anti-aircraft-carrier programs.
- ponector 3y agoI'm sceptical as well. Expensive and with small amounts of missions applicable. Instead of one such vehicle you afraid to loose it is much better to have tens or hundreds of long endurance drones for realtime reconnaissance. And satellites of course.
- willis936 3y agoSounds nice, but from talking with jet pilots it is quite easy for humans to push the machines past their limits. All of the cool stuff in Top Gun Maverick would have required the planes to get airframe service after every flight. Where you gain benefit from removing humans is the reduction in weight from life support and HMI systems and in the prospect of reducing reaction times.