Doomsday For Defense? -- Arthur Herman, New York PostAfter supercommittee’s failure.
The news last week from the Pentagon’s supersecret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that it had successfully tested a hypersonic missile capable of speeds up to 3,082 mph caused quite a stir in military circles, and no wonder. Imagine being able to aim at and hit any target on the planet within an hour; or soldiers in Afghanistan calling in a pinpoint airstrike with missiles fired from Omaha.
Taken together with the successful test by the Office of Naval Research over Halloween of its hypersonic electromagnetic railgun — which, once it goes into action, can knock out approaching missiles as far away as 100 miles — and we may be entering an era as revolutionary as when gunpowder replaced the crossbow.
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My Comment: If NASA could be stripped to a shell of itself .... why not DARPA and other defense related projects. My prediction .... while these weapon systems are incredible, their costs in an age of austerity will not be enough to sustain them. Cutting the budget and programs will be the rule .... not the exception.
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