“Stratolaunch under Cerberus gives me the willies. And I’m not talking about Willy Ley.”
from the Missile Defense Agency for a feasibility study on how the US might take countermeasures against hypersonic attacks. Stratolaunch is building its own hypersonic missiles, codenamed Talon. The first is intended for a single launch—after the test it will drop into the ocean. The second is a reusable hypersonic vehicle that will retain the key data after tests. For now, the intent is defensive, to mimic the behavior of potential attack missiles.
I’m not necessarily making an argument against my home country developing state-of-the-art weaponry and countermeasures against such threats. But I will repeat the alarm that hypersonic technologyin an already unacceptable nuclear arms standoff. If a country is capable of delivering a decisive blow before an opponent can launch its own missiles, some Dr. Strangelove might well argue that the only sensible course is a first strike.
in April 2019. I can’t speak for what he would have thought of its current mission, but Stratolaunch under Cerberus gives me the willies. And I’m not talking about Willy Ley., after visiting its plane several times in the Mojave desert, even walking its expansive wings. My conversation with Paul Allen about the project was the last press interview he would give.
Though the two fuselages look identical, only the right one has a cockpit, largely preserved from one of the 747s, with a throttle, foot pedal, and even some analog displays that a commercial pilot working in the 1970s might find familiar. One of the seats is covered by a sheepskin-like cushion of the type often found in New York City taxis. Looking out the window, the second fuselage is so far away that it looks like a plane sitting on an adjacent runway.
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