Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Scott Manley"
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There was an article recently about how Boeing's merger with McDonnel Douglas changed Boeing's corporate culture, and not in a good way. Basically, before the merger was the old Boeing that created the 707, the 747, the B-52, and other long-running success stories, but since the merger something changed and the 787 and newer versions of the 737 (such as the Max) have seen a decline in various aspects. Something else to consider, though, is that Boeing is a huge company and the space side is pretty separate from the jetliner side; much of the space side came from the merger with Hughes Space, which is a whole different story than the MDD merger. Big corporations are complex organizations and it's hard to make broad generalizations, although it's fun to joke about it.
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The US has, in the past, made conscious decisions not to implement certain types of new weapons technology, in order to avoid sparking new arms races. Project Pluto, for example, the nuclear ramjet cruise missile, was canceled, along with nuclear powered bombers, and treaties were signed by the US to preclude certain types of weapons which US engineers absolutely know how to build. But we are now entering a time where major US adversaries, China and Russia, are starting to build this stuff despite America's restraint. The US can certainly build hypersonic weapons as well as anyone else; the question is whether it's good policy to do so.
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