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   by npnpnp 4y ago

   A lot of other comments have covered other aspects, and here's another one. If balloons become commonplace, I'd bet that they don't scramble the latest and greatest to shoot them down. It could probably be done with a turbopr
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   by npnpnp 4y ago

   But remember - these planes are often up in the air anyway for training. The US Air Force has some of the highest flight hours per pilot of any air forces. Yes it will cost more, but it's hard to say by how much. Fighter jets don'
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   by npnpnp 4y ago

   They're probably being targeted before getting in range of media cameras, and are likely classified until declassified. I would doubt if we see another one over populated areas anytime soon. I would also bet these start getting shot
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   by npnpnp 4y ago

   It depends. SRBs are pretty simple (yet still incredibly hard to make remotely safe). Orbital rocket engines are not “point up and ignite fuel.” You’re right, they don’t need air intakes - they need cryogenic liquid oxygen and all the suppo
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   by npnpnp 4y ago

   By that logic, scramjets are the simplest of all! But really, there’s an order of magnitude more engineering that goes into so many facets of rockets and rocket engines. On paper they’re similar, but the stresses and constraints are much, m