Given that we expect them to militarize the moon one day. In some ways they've already militarized low Earth orbit and we have not yet fielded those same capabilities. Ironically, We developed the hypersonic missile. The ramjet engine was developed in 1996. Mike Griffin then was head of NASA. We did the test. It was a successful test, and we got up to mach nine at that time before it burned out. (19:31–19:38)
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Asserts that the U.S. developed the hypersonic missile and ramjet engine in 1996.
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