With State and local spending, Military comes to ~10% of our tax dollars.
You missed the part about people under 21, that should cut off another ~25% from your estimate. Medicare + Medicaid + Social Security is well over 2 billion, so I think it's pretty close.
Because the energy grows with the velocity squared, it's more like a quarter of the heat of a typical orbital re-entry. No, the drag force grows with the square of velocity.…
This projectile is actually significantly more sophisticated than a bullet. It is going to require a significant amount of guidance/control to have any level of accuracy at 100 km. That is the real cost driver, and it…
Never, more speed is good because they can program the projectiles to break apart before impact with soft targets. The limiting factor is air resistance, greater initial speeds result in more energy wasted. Also, I…
With State and local spending, Military comes to ~10% of our tax dollars.
You missed the part about people under 21, that should cut off another ~25% from your estimate. Medicare + Medicaid + Social Security is well over 2 billion, so I think it's pretty close.
Because the energy grows with the velocity squared, it's more like a quarter of the heat of a typical orbital re-entry. No, the drag force grows with the square of velocity.…
This projectile is actually significantly more sophisticated than a bullet. It is going to require a significant amount of guidance/control to have any level of accuracy at 100 km. That is the real cost driver, and it…
Never, more speed is good because they can program the projectiles to break apart before impact with soft targets. The limiting factor is air resistance, greater initial speeds result in more energy wasted. Also, I…