Hypersonic Bomber Technology Not Ready Yet, U.S. Air Force Official Says

U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley said yesterday that it could be some time before the technology needed to build a hypersonic bomber becomes available, according to Aerospace Daily (see GSN, Nov. 20, 2003).

In remarks before the Precision Strike Association’s winter roundtable, Moseley said that that significant advances in technologies such as propulsion and exterior heat protection were still needed before a hypersonic bomber capable of leaving the atmosphere would be realized.

“We’re spending a reasonable amount of money on hypersonics, but the fact of the matter is the technology doesn’t exist yet,” Moseley said. “Now that doesn’t mean it won’t sometime, but right now it doesn’t,” he added (Marc Selinger, Aerospace Daily, Jan. 22).

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