The US military is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop a rocket that can travel at 7,500 miles per hour and deliver 80 tons of cargo anywhere in the world in 60 minutes.
Gen. Stephen Lyons, head of US Transportation Command, said on Wednesday that SpaceX will assess the costs and challenges of the new project, and tests are expected to start in 2021. Another aerospace firm, Exploration Architecture Corporation, will also be a part of the project.
A 7,652-mile journey from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the US-run Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, could take about one hour with the new system. In comparison, a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, a military aircraft with a maximum speed of 590 mph, would complete the journey in about 15 hours.
“Think about moving the equivalent of a C-17 payload anywhere on the globe in less than an hour,” Gen. Lyons said. “I can tell you SpaceX is moving very, very rapidly in this area. I’m really excited about the team that’s working with SpaceX.”
The plan was announced shortly after SpaceX landed a $149 million contract with the Pentagon to build missile-tracking satellites.
A normal human being would tout this as a way to deliver humanitarian aid or medical supplies in short notice. But general’s suffer from brain damage due to the lack of oxygen that results from having their noses buried up someone’s a$$ their entire lives.
Remember, that the people who do this, love this, worship gods who sanction this crap, have kids and generally live as monsters inside of society….
Conventional Prompt Global Strike has been a slowly rolling stone snowball for some time.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R41464.pdf
And this is the same Elon Musk who lectures people about how monetizing the debt to pay for welfare spending is dangerous? Mr. Musk, exactly how is military spending paid for?
Moving freight in space ships sounds mighty expensive.