So impressive.

Today, 🗽 The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (#OSTP) is releasing an updated list of #critical and #emerging #technologies 🛰️🚀 (#CETs) that are potentially significant to U.S. national #security 👮. --> The critical and emerging technology areas in the 2024 update are: • Advanced Computing • Advanced Engineering Materials • Advanced Gas Turbine Engine Technologies • Advanced and Networked Sensing and Signature Management • Advanced Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence • Biotechnologies • Clean Energy Generation and Storage • Data Privacy, Data Security, and Cybersecurity Technologies • Directed Energy • Highly Automated, Autonomous, and Uncrewed Systems, and Robotics • Human-Machine Interfaces • Hypersonics • Integrated Communication and Networking Technologies • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Technologies • Quantum Information and Enabling Technologies • Semiconductors and Microelectronics • Space Technologies and Systems Click here for more: https://lnkd.in/dMfb3kdf

The sharp report is concise, leaving little room for interpretation. The United States is in trouble, and unless swift and substantive action is taken, they will fall hopelessly behind their rivals in the East. The very fabric of our society is at risk, as our reliance on technology continues to grow. This is a race we cannot afford to lose.

I once read somewhere, Will uses his hypersonic whistling thing and his first reaction is to cover Nico’s ears and I just think it’s cute. It’s a small detail, him hugging Nico’s head close to his chest and cover his other ear, making sure he’d be unharmed first, but it warms me inside out.

The SR-71 Blackbird.

A spy plane that flew at approximately 70 to 85 thousand (21,000 to 25,000 meters) above Earth's sea level and cruised at speeds of 2,500 miles per hour ( 4,000 km per hour) is one man's most most amazing creation in its class for the purposes of intelligence gathering.

When the enemy fired missiles and other rockets at the Blackbird, the evasive maneuver was simply, acceleration and climbing.

Nothing could reach this machine that practically flew at the edge of Earth's atmosphere and beginning of solar system space.

Enemy aircraft would run out of fuel before they could even attempt to get close to the Blackbird.

Missiles would burn out of rocket fuel. On some instances, the SR-71 outsped missiles and bullets fired at it.

Architecture, engineering and operation of this machine is phenomenal. Even though we outlived its usefulness, it would be awesome to keep this aircraft functional for research and demonstration purposes.

Hypersonic engine test | source

"cancelled", "would not proceed" then later "ready for low rate initial production" a few days ago, shows up on Guam with live ordnance markings:

ARRW's not dead, folks

Neil Armstrong photographed 9 Dec, 1960  next to the North American X-15 ship #1

X-15 rocket aircraft. "The Right Stuff". From Pearl Harbor to test pilot, to the Apollo program. A rare interview with Scott Crossfield

VIDEO ➤➤https://youtu.be/x5ALRclpguQ

I low key hate that because of your posts I'm now semi-unironically repeating that "president xi please liberate my state of Connecticut with your Donfeng 41 missiles"

You can have what they have too! Join an org, agitate, unionize, and prepare!

besides, I say the same thing too lmao

Concept art of the McDonnell Douglas MD-2001 "Orient Express" Hypersonic Transport, their submission to the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) program.

Artwork by Horonzak.

Date: October 15, 1987

NASA ID: ARC-1987-AC87-0754

There has been a superhero community growing on instagram and I am but a sheep, following every single one of them

This is what no season 4 of The Boys and no new Spiderman movies does to a man

I know you said that you aren't the pinnacle of military knowledge that people think you are but know a damsite more than I do about the US military than I do, so I have a question. Do you have any idea how long the Darkstar project would've been going on for in canon? It can't have been a few months but I also don't know if it would be years and years? I know Mav has an award for being a test pilot that I think is dated 2007 (I may have imagined that) but that doesn't mean the Darkstar project was going on for over ten years? I think the F-18A took 8 years from testing to being approved, so it can't be far off. Just wanted your opinion. Thanks :-)

awright here’s my opinion (not an expert)

the darkstar is canonically a Lockheed Martin “skunk works” (super duper secret) surveillance and reconnaissance (SR) spyplane, as evidenced by the skunk works logo on the vertical stabilizer (left is darkstar, right is me with the SW logo on the SR-71 blackbird at the udvar-hazy museum this summer).

we can look to see how long other SW projects have taken to develop in the past. the SR-71, for instance, was first suggested as an “undetectable spyplane” idea in 1957. the lockheed A-12 oxcart, which would provide the framework for the SR-71, had its first flight in 1962, five years later. the finished SR-71 was introduced into USAF and CIA service in 1966. so a 9-year development for the fastest-ever air-breathing jet, with 4-ish of those years being flight testing (ish because the A-12 had to be heavily adapted into the SR-71 which had its first flight in 1964).

Lockheed’s been teasing its blackbird successor, the unmanned aerial vehicle the SR-72 “son of blackbird,” on its socials recently. i saw someone say: “soft-launching its new death machine like an instagram influencer with a new boyfriend”

leading many to believe this is what happened

note however that the SR-72 son of blackbird is an UNMANNED aerial vehicle (UAV) which is why in my fic I specifically said this

note also that most of aircraft development is just that—development. Flight testing (i.e. where mav would get hands-on involved) doesn’t come until very very late in the development process. For the plot of my fic’s sake I had mav go out to NAWS china lake in 2003, but in TGM during the Hard Deck scene Penny says something to the effect of “you got sent out to the desert three years ago for pissing off that other admiral” and mav goes “that was three years ago? 😀” (cute!) so that’s the longest mav could’ve canonically been involved with the darkstar project. (For my own purposes i made it like a year, for those two sections of the story to neatly flow into each other—from 2015ish to 2016. I know TGM takes place in 2020 [i know but idfc] Maybe LockMart has had this tech [probably not high hypersonic like in the movie] for that long anyway and it’s just been so heavily classified that we didn’t know about it till very recently. Definitely possible.)