Quarterhorse is the first program on Hermeus’ roadmap to hypersonic flight. The program culminates into two primary objectives:
1. Demonstrate Chimera’s turbine-based combined cycle engine capabilities in-flight
2. Break the nearly 50-year-old airspeed record held by the legendary SR-71...
As H I Sutton points out, it will be interesting to see if its indeed VLS or something related to extra range/AIP or some other kind of payload.
Chinese were top notch on keeping this very secretive.
More navies in region over time likely will keep going for comprehensive VLS on new SSK...
Makes sense. It is just feasibility study, it will be for electric arc furnace for scrap metal I would imagine....India is now producing lot of steel scrap that makes sense to recycle as far as possible.
Its your own writing, ChatGPT or an article?
India has separate foreign policy w.r.t Russia and Ukraine war compared to US.
Quad is more or less for Indo-Pacific strategy only.
https://theprint.in/india/more-than-10-consortia-evinced-interest-in-sslv-few-shortlisted-isro-chairman/2230287/
New Delhi, Aug 20 (PTI) More than 10 companies and consortia have evinced interest in manufacturing the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), with a few being shortlisted as...
Hope it all moves with little delay, comes to about USD 850 million in total and USD 2 mil per gun... 400 guns that will then serve as arc for the 800+ remaining after it.
Yah 8% sounds way too small for a production line. Indonesia likely gets first dibs on production blocks and options in production schedule in South Korea (compared to outsiders interested in KF-21 with no equity at all). But production line would need heavy equity....doesn't seem like Indonesia...