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The hype around hypersonic technology does not end.

The new ideas for hypersonic flight are impressive. One of them is to connect the idea of an electric jet engine with hypersonic systems. The hypersonic aircraft will pull air inside the rocket chamber where the electric arc expands it. 

These kinds of systems can be futuristic, but the fact is this. Hypersonic technology is far more than just some missiles. The hypersonic jet can jump outside the atmosphere and make a ballistic jump. The rocket-scramjets where the flaps are closing the air inlet are basing technology created for the V-1 flying bomb. 

But in the hypersonic version, the flap scramjet can use as a regular rocket engine before its speed is rising to the level that the scramjet engine can start. When the flap scramjet starts its acceleration the flap system closes the air inlet, and the engine uses the internal oxygen and fuel. 

In that system, the motor uses internal oxygen until the incoming air reaches the level of Mach 6-7 where the air inlets open and the scramjet can start to use the oxygen from the air. Those air-breathing hypersonic systems are making it possible. That the smaller crafts can travel longer in the atmosphere. 



Hypersonic missiles are terrifying weapons. Even without warheads, those systems can hit the target with kinetic energy. That energy level is similar to the 5000 kg of TNT. The problem is that the system can calculate the horizontal trajectory of a hypersonic missile. 

The problem is that those systems can change their altitudes. And the azimuth of the incoming trajectory must be calculated precisely so that the defensive systems can destroy the target.

One of the versions of the defense against hypersonic missiles is the drone swarm. The drones are surrounding the suspected targets and if the hypersonic missiles hit them those impacts could destroy the attacker. The impact with an incoming bullet would be enough to destroy a hypersonic missile. But the problem is that the hypersonic missiles must get hit by those bullets. 

Hypersonic missiles can have microwave systems that can damage or sweep drones away from their route. And those microwave systems can use an air turbine as the power source. The microwave systems can also destroy the incoming guided anti-aircraft missiles. These kinds of systems can help hypersonic missiles to penetrate through air defense. Those high-power microwaves can also cause damage even to the structures of aircraft carriers and other targets. 

Hypersonic missiles can use stealth technology that makes them very deadly. The damage in those missiles' noses causes a situation that the air pressure rips them to pieces. And that's why directed energy weapons are needed for defense against those extremely fast targets. The fact is that there are not many minutes to react to fast-flying incoming missiles that can cause very bad damage even to heavily defended targets. 



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