Hypersonic Fever! With Chris Combs and Alex Hollings
The Hermeus Podcast
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The Importance of Volume in Large Scale War
The volume in which you can field these systems at becomes the determining factor of their value, right? You want to find a system that fills a capability gap or creates a new capability. But then if you can only afford to produce six of them, it's a novelty. It's not an actual added capability. There's no real strategic value other than the perception that your opponent might have. And when you're producing single use hypersonic platforms, like some of these hypersonic weapons that are in active development now, you know, the DOD predicts some of them are going to cost $106 million a piece. That's more than a new F 35A and that's a single
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