Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Concept Aircraft : X-30 Hypersonic Bomber (1988)

X-30 Hypersonic Bomber (1988)

This is not the actual X-30 National Aerospace Plane (NASP- below) once under development by NASA, but a purely conjectural design developed by Monogram models. Featuring a legitimate "lifting body" shape, the Monogram X-30 was to employ hydrogen-burning engines to boost itself to the edge of space, then re-enter the atmosphere at five times the speed of sound to deliver nuclear weapons to enemy targets.

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