If they did, that’s basically game for US power projection. 6000km range at hypersonic speeds is death for any bases in the whole region. You couldn’t even get a carrier within striking distance.
Could be one of the reasons the US is trying to just fuck everything up because they need not just bases but full blown colonial vassals to survive anything like that.
That’s why I’m a little flabbergasted by the lack of any analysis or information from serious sources. Scramjets are still talked about like they’re Future Tech… and yet here we are talking kind of casually about how one of the superpower militaries has them in service, during a period where people are also talking really casually about how we might be in the early stages of WW3.
It’s one of those things that can’t really be acknowledged. Because if it is, you’re basically saying “everyone on a ship will die”. They want to secure a ground route for invasion through Iran.
I still want to know what the deal is with China’s CJ-1000. Did they really get a scramjet engine working for a cruise missile?
If they did, that’s basically game for US power projection. 6000km range at hypersonic speeds is death for any bases in the whole region. You couldn’t even get a carrier within striking distance.
Could be one of the reasons the US is trying to just fuck everything up because they need not just bases but full blown colonial vassals to survive anything like that.
That’s why I’m a little flabbergasted by the lack of any analysis or information from serious sources. Scramjets are still talked about like they’re Future Tech… and yet here we are talking kind of casually about how one of the superpower militaries has them in service, during a period where people are also talking really casually about how we might be in the early stages of WW3.
It’s one of those things that can’t really be acknowledged. Because if it is, you’re basically saying “everyone on a ship will die”. They want to secure a ground route for invasion through Iran.
that’s what it sounds like at least