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		sudosysgen on Oct 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful fl... That only works if your rate of tangential acceleration is quite low. The reason why you'd make an airbreathing hypersonic instead of a ballistic missile is so it could manoeuvre.

jhgb on Oct 3, 2021 [–]

Your tangential acceleration is zero in a sustained flight. So it works, then.

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