Название: Disruptive Technologies for the Militaries and Security Автор: Ajey Lele
Издательство: Springer
ISBN: 9811333831
Год: 2019
Страниц: 234
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
This book debates and discusses the present and future of Disruptive Technologies in general and military Disruptive Technologies in particular. Its primary goal is to discuss various critical and advanced elucidations on strategic technologies. The focus is less on extrapolating the future of technology in a strict sense, and more on understanding the Disruptive Technology paradigm. It is widely accepted that technology alone cannot win any military campaign or war. However, technological superiority always offers militaries an advantage. More importantly, technology also has a great deterrent value. Hence, on occasion, technology can help to avoid wars. Accordingly, it is important to effectively manage new technologies by identifying their strategic utility and role in existing military architectures and the possible contributions they could make towards improving overall military capabilities. This can also entail doctrinal changes, so as to translate these new technologies into concrete advantages.
Most hypersonic designs rely on rocket engines while HyperSoar has a major advantage in its use of air-breathing engines. Such engines are inherently more efficient than rocket engines. Also, the use of such engines greatly simplifies the design, reduces technical risks and permits cost saving.
The HyperSoar concept was acquired from LLNL by DARPA and, in 2002, was combined with the USAF X-41 Common Aero Vehicle to form the Falcon programme. The Boeing X-51 (or X-51 Waverider) is an unmanned research scramjet carried in a B-52H Launcher and is designed to fly at Mach 5, at an altitude of 70,000 ft (21,000 m). This technology is likely to be used in the High-Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW), a Mach 5+ missile planned to enter service in the mid-2020s. During the 2013 test, the X-51 travelled at Mach 5 (X-51 Waverider hypersonic scramjet) and collected data on its flight. However, the idea is to develop an aircraft that could actually transport equipment. Currently, the USAF and DARPA are working together and proposing to make such an aircraft by 2023.
Russia’s 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is expected to enter production in 2018 if the tests in 2017 are successful. The hypersonic missile—which is a component of the 3K22 Zircon system—will be incorporated into the nuclear-powered Project 11442 Orlan-class battle cruiser (NATO: Kirov-class) Pyotr Velikiy when it is overhauled by late 2022. Its sister ship, Admiral Nakhimov, is also currently under modification and is likely to be the first Russian warship equipped with the new missile when it returns to service in 2018. These missiles would replace the two battle cruisers’ 390-mile range P-700 Granit supersonic anti-ship missile armament.
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