Don't know why they even try to stop this. We know from history and technology that anything that is technically possible will lead to military use even before civil use, as long as someone can make money of it. Welcome Terminators.
Last edited by PinkChip; 08-26-2020 at 03:12 AM.
Yup. Almost all Technology came from military applications.Originally Posted by PinkChip
Also aircraft avionics and design. The Concorde was a great example. Delta wing design so that you can fly supersonic.
It’s to bad that they retired the aircraft due to cost.
Yes, some good examples are nuclear technology (atom bomb came way earlier than power plants), and avionics (the first jet planes were fighters such as Me 262, Gloster Meteor and P-80 Shooting Star, bombers such as the Arado 234, and the first operational large rocket was the A4 alias V2 for raiding Great Britain, designed by the same Wernher von Braun that constructed the Saturn V a quarter of a century later for the peaceful moon landings).
Yup. The scientists who made the atomic bomb used uranium reactors”Not energy type” to make plutonium. These scientist learned that plutonium is much more effective. A very interesting time in history. Two scientist died in the lab while conducting experiments with a plutonium core. Then came the reactors for power generation which run on reactor grade uranium.
The jets had a major break through when they made Delta wing design. Aviation changes once you go above the sound Barrier. Which is a Hugh pain in the ass for the engineers. In a regular jet during the winter planes need to avoid clouds so the wings don’t ice. But once you go hypersonic the wings heat up. Also with hypersonic aircraft they have to slow down the air going into the jet engine.
Cell phones are a great example of Technology from military.
I personally thought we would have gone to satellite phones by now instead of cell towers.
It must be a cost factor. There are also signal issues.
With the exception of that one accident the Concorde had a very good safety record compared to non hypersonic aircraft.
The cause of that accident no one anticipated.
A pice of metal puncturing the fuel tank.
But because of that disaster we now use ballistic plates or soft armor on fuel tanks.
Interestingly, self-sealing fuel tanks were already developed during WW II, in order to prevent the tanks from exploding or losing fuel, by just a few bullets shot from hostile aircraft. But this metal piece lying on the runway by pure sloppiness and bad luck must have been too large.
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