SOURCES: CHINA FOLLOWING JAPAN IN PURSUIT OF SUPERSONIC AND HYPERSONIC/TRANSATMOSPHERIC AIRLINER PLATFORMS WITH MILITARY APPLICATIONS

Hypersonic Airliner Concept   Image: NASA



United Federation of Planets? No, logo of Chinese Aerospace and Science Corporation  Image: CASC

 (Hong Kong )  -   eMOTION! REPORTS.com sources are advising of China's intensified pursuit of near-term supersonic and long-term hypersonic/transatmospheric airliner platforms with military applications.

In addition to the goals and objectives for its burgeoning aerospace industry as outlined in the United States China Economic and Security Review Commission  (http://www.uscc.gov/) report "READY FOR TAKEOFF: CHINA'S ADVANCING AEROSPACE INDUSTRY" ( http://t.co/u3UEIuR ) China has not only closely followed Japan's JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) supersonic and hypersonic airliner development, but has been able to acquire through its intelligence services the most current research data associated with the initiative.  These data, in conjunction with open and closed source materials obtained through NASA, national labs, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Airbus and multiple academic institutions with whom they have association, renders China poised to roll-out a 3/4 scale proof of aerodynamic design and propulsion systems test bed aircraft as early as 2013.



JAXA (Ishikawa) Hypersonic airliner program is in advanced stages
Image: JAXA

 "They will beat Japan to market", says one source, "and the Chinese military is seeing to it that they do.  Anyone still entertaining the unsupportable and foolish notion that the Chinese are merely copyists devoid of any internal innovation capability, need look no further than their expanding militarization of space program which will include a Shuttle fleet as NASA is ordered to retire its own;  their Aegis BMD System clone stolen through a front company registered as a Lockheed-Martin supplier; their J-20 Stealth fighter based on covertly acquired F-22/ F-35 technological/manufacturing process data and stealth technology acquired through components provided by Serbia in the aftermath of an F-117 shoot-down during the Kosovo conflict; and the now operational retrofitted Kuznetsov-class Carrier (Varyag) Shi Lang."

The source further noted that China's militarization of space and ultra-high performance commercial and military aircraft initiatives are designed to optimize, expand and accelerate its internal strategy of Gradual debilitation of a nation competitor's offensive/defensive capabilities inclusive of economic destabilization. 


"This is nothing new philosophically for China.  In fact, it is the epitomization of Sun-Tzu.  In my view, the greatest threat of the moment to US national security is not so much from without, but from within; a circumstance fostered and fomented by extra-national forces," he said.

In this vein, it is also worth noting that China's troubling and expanding one-on-one business relationships with states of the Union has the added benefit of giving it ease of access to proprietary and defense sensitive technologies, as noted in the industrial base scenario presented in the book Project on National Security Reform Vision Working Group Report and Scenarios (Edited by Dr. Sheila Ronis)
http://www.slideshare.net/GHHLLC2/project-on-national-security-reform-vision-working-group-report-and-scenarios-including-industrial-base-south-china-sea




"In all elements of its national re-identification as a military and economic force to be reckoned with," the source continued, "China's understanding of systems thinking, from dominating the high ground of air and space to the fragmenting of governmental infrastructure within nations, would be appalling to [Dr. W. Edwards] Deming himself. "

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Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707
http://www.emotionreports.com/briefing_room/boeing_update.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/article/special/aviation/ishikawa02_e.html
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA526455
http://www.slideshare.net/GHHLLC2/project-on-national-security-reform-vision-working-group-report-and-scenarios-including-industrial-base-south-china-sea
http://www.emotionreports.com/downloads/pdfs/Asimovalltogether6904.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Aerospace_Science_and_Technology_Corporation
Advances in Hypersonics: Modeling hypersonic flows By John J. Bertin, Jacques Periaux, Josef Ballmann (Springer, 1992)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002iaf..confE.963C
 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19910012753_1991012753.pdf
http://research.lifeboat.com/surf.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/nra_pdf/hyp_proposal_c1.pdf



NASA X-43B Hypersonic    Image: NASA



Aerospace Competitors, Several Compromised Policy Makers Behind Continuing Efforts to Kill Indispensable C-17, Boeing Itself; Sets Stage for US AirForce Acquisition of Airbus A-400M, Cont'd Retrofit of Ancient Lockheed-Martin C-5 Galaxy

Bloomfield Hills, MI - UPDATE May 17, 2011   WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday announced that: * Boeing Co had won a $962.5 million order for five more C-17 cargo planes for U.S. Air Force. (Company news desk in Washington; +1 202 898 8400, washington.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2011. All rights reserved.



Bloomfield Hills, MI - UPDATE September 28, 2010 (to 5/26/10 press release) -        According to Congressional sources, Boeing C-17 Funding is not included in the first markup of the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill which failed to make it to the floor in the aftermath of partisan objections to certain aspects of its content. At this juncture, it will in all likelihood not come up for final approval until January 3, 2011 or beyond, giving Boeing additional opportunity to fill production schedules out to 2016 with FMS C-17 sales that may include 3 to 5 aircraft for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)  (Kuwait is now on track to acquire at least one, but indications are that will be expanded to 2, thus allowing the Kingdom to further expand humanitarian/disaster relief efforts like nation sibling Qatar) while simultaneously allowing solidification of interim policy shaping actions designed to ensure the inclusion of up to 10 and no less than 5 very much confirmable-as-needed Globemasters in this budget.




Sepecat Jaguars of the Royal Air Force of Oman 
 Image: RAFO


Oman

The Sultanate of Oman may soon make an announcement about its own C-17 aspirations; "Oman's His Majesty Sultan Qaboos has long sought, with laudable success, to place the country in a carefully crafted position of quasi-neutrality, balance, reason and progressiveness,"  (note Ambassador to the U.S. Hunaina Al Mughairy as the region's first woman in this capacity) observes a foreign services colleague, "along with a geo-strategic position that cannot be ignored nor is lost to its immediate neighbors or nations abroad.  Its recent participation in the repatriation of an American journalist held captive in North Korea is demonstrative of this contention.  Conversely, the rapid and comprehensive humanitarian/disaster relief capabilities of C-17 conjoined with the RAFO military airlift mission, fits hand-in-glove with Omani international influence objectives."

Boeing At Risk

It is our understanding that aerospace competitors to Boeing - Lockheed-Martin and Airbus/EADS - in conjunction with several policy makers (who, by their inexplicable and irresponsible efforts to kill the operationally superior and provably cost effective C-17 Globemaster III, are ostensibly compromised) have been, and continue to be, behind the full range of activities within government, industry and media to terminate C-17 production.

It’s not difficult to understand why: With C-17 out of the way, Lockheed-Martin will reap up to USD15 billion in C-5 - an arguably mission obsolete airlifter with a long history of reliability problems that continue to this day - modernization revenues, and up to 5 billion in C-130J orders both from the US AirForce and NATO/de facto NATO allies; Airbus/EADS will have an open door to attempt the placement of 200 overweight (12 tons at moment giving it essentially the same approx. 25 ton load capacity of C-130J) overcost (current acquisition costs may exceed that of a new C-17, prompting South Africa to withdraw its order) yet-to-be-operational A-400M - an order valued at up to 40 billion based on current projected acquisition costs, and renewed confidence and vigor to pursue the 35-40 billion (100 billion over life of program) US Air Force KC-X aerial tanker replacement program.

The strategy in place is structured not only to wrest airlifter and tanker program participation from Boeing, but to set the stage for the company’s rapid elimination from existence. Thus, leaving the military and commercial aircraft sector to Lockheed-Martin and Airbus/EADS and an increasingly unstable geo-political landscape (within which the duality of asymmetric/conventional war scenarios is a constant) while simultaneously rendering it bereft of Boeing’s critical-to-defense-industrial-base technological and production capacity - should its enemies succeed.

This must be called what it inarguably is: An issue of national security demanding response crafted to ensure continuance of Boeing, a core element of the US defense industrial base.

Myron D. Stokes, Publisher
eMOTION! REPORTS.com

Aerospace Competitors and Several Compromised Policy Makers Behind Continuing Efforts to Kill Indispensable C-17, and Boeing Itself; Sets Stage for US Air Force Acquisition of Airbus/EADS A400M, Continued Retrofit of Ancient Lockheed-Martin C-5 Galaxy

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Boeing C-17 (New) - Lockheed-Martin C-5 (Retrofit): Government Accountability Office (GAO) Nov. 2008 DoD Strategic Airlift Cost Analysis

Publisher's note: A follow on to this analysis was issued the following year, with virtually no change in the data that counts. Nevertheless, it was more reflective of the objections raised by the Office of the Secretary of Defense while still raising strong doubts about the SECDEF's motivations in terms of continuing attempts to kill C-17. This, in spite of its being one of the most operationally and cost effective platforms in DoD inventory.  This document, along with the just released and much delayed DoD Annual Report to Congress on China's military preparedness, is demonstrative of budgetary restraint objectives all but wholly dismissive of the prevailing geo-political/geo-military state of affairs.
Excerpt:
'The Air Force has cut the number of C-5s it plans to fully modernize by more than half because of substantial cost increases in the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Reengining Program (RERP) and plans to acquire more C-17s, with additional congressional funding.

'Currently, the Air Force plans to provide avionics upgrades to all 111 C-5s, limit RERP to 52 C-5s, and acquire 205 (now 223) C-17s. However, this mix may change again, based in part on the results of a new mobility capabilities study, the findings of which DOD plans to release in May 2009.

'While the new study is expected to consider transport needs for the future force, DOD has not identified specific metrics it will use to make strategic airlift decisions—a concern GAO raised about DOD’s previous mobility capabilities study and one DOD agreed to address in future studies.

'The Air Force currently estimates it will spend $9.1 billion on upgrading the C-5s. However, this estimate may be understated because DOD did not apply risk or uncertainty analyses to its RERP major cost drivers. Moreover, the current RERP is underfunded by almost $300 million and may be unachievable if the engine production schedule is not met.

 Relative Capability Increases from Modernized C-5s and New C-17 Aircraft
'Finally, if the cost for C-5 modernization continues to increase, Air Force officials may have to reconsider the mix within its airlift portfolio or request additional funding.

'Additional investments in C-17 aircraft may become more attractive. Currently, a new C-17 would cost about $276 million compared to $132 million to fully modernize a C-5. Each new C-17 potentially adds 100 percent of its cargo capacity toward meeting the total airlift requirement.(ital. ours)

'Because the C-5s are already part of the operational force, each aircraft’s current capacity is already counted toward the total requirement. Consequently, according to DOD data, the C-5 modernization programs only provide a marginal increase of 14 percent in capability over nonmodernized aircraft.

'Using DOD’s million ton-mile per day planning factors, we, working in collaboration with DOD, calculated that DOD would need to fully modernize 7 C-5s to attain the equivalent capability achieved from acquiring 1 additional C-17 and the costs would be over 3 times more (see table 3)."

Cost per flying hour                            Mission Capable Rate
C-5                     C-17                             C-5                           C-17
$23,100              $11,300                       53%                          86%

Boeing C-17 (New) - Lockheed-Martin C-5 (Retrofit): Government Accountability Office (GAO) Nov. 2008 DoD Strategic Airlift Cost Analysis

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