Hypersonic Fever! With Chris Combs and Alex Hollings
The Hermeus Podcast
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The Importance of Cost Perfect in National Security
A Tomahawk cruise missile costs between two and three million dollars a piece depending on the version, the iteration of it that you're looking at. Every air defense system has a saturation point in which it just can't defend against anymore. But if instead you had a few hypersonic delivery vehicles where you could deliver lower cost munitions that we already have on the shelf, there's no R&D cost.
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