>“We’ve been saying hypersonics is two years away for the last 20 years, but all I can say is the technology is mature and we, along with DARPA and the services, are working hard to get that capability into the hands of our warfighters as soon as possible... I can’t give you any timelines or any specifics on the capabilities. It is all very sensitive. Some of our adversaries are moving along these lines pretty quickly and it is important we stay quiet about what is going on. We can acknowledge the general capability that’s out there, but any program specifics are off limits.”
-Lockheed Martin VP
>warfighter
This meme dies now
>>34252797
o-ok
USA is behind once again. Mig 31 existed for 50 years and isn't a meme plane that'll burn up on supersonic cruise.
>>34252835
Nah, but it'll melt it's engines.
>>34252777
it's the same stunt they pulled with the B-21
>well then guys, i guess it's time for us to finally get our shit together and make a new, proper x platform
1 year later
>so guys, we've sent out a few proposals, the basic idea for x is pretty fleshed out and we have a few partners with prototypes in the works
1 year later
>sorry, nothing new on this front
1 year later
>nothing has happened sadly
1 year later
>oh yeah we're basically done, here's basically 25 years of progress, don't you just love capitalism?
1 year later
>look at these cool jets, we'll start LRIP in a few years
they can't pull magical secret planes out of the woodwork anymore because "cold war" so they have to take the interesting parts from their secret projects and introduce them to legitimate projects.
>>34252864
The 31's engine are better than the 25's
>>34253385
The SR-71 engines were better than either.
What's your point?
>>34252835
>Mach 2.8
>Hypersonic
>2017-1975 = 50
Russian math, everybody.
>>34252777
checked
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