Fusion Powered Military Vehicles

Sailor.X

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Is a pipe dream. You don't even have yet (massive) civilian centrals. Or if you want, carriers fusion powered. That level of miniaturization is a long way after you get these.
I will point out we went from flying Piston Powered Aircraft to landing a man on the moon in just 24 years. Don't underestimate technology leaps. Especially with a massive profit motive behind it.
 

PsihoKekec

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Technology leaps can happen in certain circumstances that are independent of money and the desirability of the breakthrough. Everybody wants the heat resistant ceramic blades for the jet engine, but despite the research going on for 80 years and heaps of money being spent it is still a pipe dream. And there are many technologies and projects that were touted as the future of right now, but are dead and buried or in the state permanent ''soon''.
 

Marduk

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I will point out we went from flying Piston Powered Aircraft to landing a man on the moon in just 24 years. Don't underestimate technology leaps. Especially with a massive profit motive behind it.
Yeah, WW2 did wonders for the nascent rocket technology. However, are there any such underinvested yet promising technological fields now?
 

Sailor.X

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Yeah, WW2 did wonders for the nascent rocket technology. However, are there any such underinvested yet promising technological fields now?
Let's just put it this way. As much as I may have beef with Lockheed. When they set their minds to doing the impossible. They tend to do the impossible. You can't argue with their innovation record.
 

paulobrito

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You know those fusion reactors are at a completely different level of complexity, right?
One area where LM has zero experience, so, no, I don't believe that they can surpass all the teams of nuclear physicists all around the world that are well-financed and trying to create one for decades. They simply want to cash grab millions/billions. SOP for the MIC, really.
 

Doomsought

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I'd trust a fission powered plane first. Fission is reliable despite the risks. Fusion is finicky as all hell which is why it has been a technology 20-years-into-the-future for the last 70 years.
 

Aaron Fox

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The funny thing is, GURPS has tauted the idea for a while. Specifically their fusion air-ram and fusion ram-rocket systems. Fusion Air Ram is, basically, a fusion version of the fission air ram concept. Use a fusion reactor instead of a fission reactor. Fusion Ram-Rockets are, essentially, a fusion between a fusion air-ram and a fusion rocket and switch modes when necessary with the added benefit of using water as the propellant as standard.

The problem? Those techs are considered TL10 techs, which is a good century or two down the line.
 

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