watching this for a week, the reading about the news( the test) seems go further away the right track... it seems some member didn't understand this at all and struggled with some wrong concept like: the 'top speed' ,'scramjet'....
but I also got to know some senior and decent indian member had read the news(or the test ) correctly...
Austin
Post subject: Re: China Military Watch - Jan 11, 2011
PostPosted: 13 Jan 2014 19:03
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Interesting development , This appears to be Chinese version of HTV-2 Hypersonic Boost Glide Vehical traveling at near space ~ 100 km.
Though its an experimental vehical and would take some years to perfect
Bharat Rakshak "¢ View topic - China Military Watch - Jan 11, 2011
wiki could give a general introduction about the mentioned HTV-2 --
Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
I thought it might help to end those meaningless talking
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something might be highlighted...
1....the mentioned speed- 10 Mach....this is an average speed. In the HTV-2 case,the vehicle might begin the trajectory at M20 and end at around M4 ...but another problem is ,unlike USA which could conduct such test over the Pacific Ocean, china don't have enouth longitudinal extent within her land. so the designed trajectory would be a compact one ,so the top speed won't be as high as HTV-2..
2.....the
glider itselt is an unpowered one. the tech needed and developped are more concentrated on:
aerothermodynamics,
materials science,
hypersonic navigation, guidance and control systems
BTW, some so called hypersonic project related with scramjet tech should be more close to the
'tactical missile(weapon)' development ...and this one is in the '
strategic missile(weapon)' category...
3....US's only two HTV-2 tests both failed and the project ended due to the fund problem .but it doesn't mean they are not the leader, and they are moving on under some other project codes...we have a long way to go...
the normal trajectory(top) and glider one(middle)... the bellow one is the Cruise trajectory