Originally Posted by
VinRouge
MoD central mind control/corporate comms shouldn’t be tarting a 10 million feasibility study up as investment In a hypersonic equipment programme in which case.
And please expand on how any hypersonic programme has been developed without direct government investment, research and involvement. It hasn’t. Not will it, too expensive, too much risk for
too little return commercially.
That's the whole Reaction Engines saga. Air breathing engines for launch also turn out to be of interest for hypersonics. It's not as if there aren't a number of companies out there who've developed launch systems without government involvement.
Anyhow to be fair they have had some government money anyhow and their project was born out of the ashes of Hotol. So it's really about pushing forward something that never got its chance. Is it worth it? Oh no, we should just sit back, wait for the Americans to invent it and then pay back their development costs by purchasing 1 or 1 1/2 if we can afford it, because as we know - there's no point investing in Engineers or science.