Paper says design integrating rotational and straight-line detonation across a wide speed range is ‘world first’ and testament to Chinese ingenuity.

The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could, in theory, lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound.

At this velocity, even the longest intercontinental flights could take just one or two hours while consuming less fuel compared with conventional jet engines.

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    • viking@infosec.pub
      1612·
      9 months ago

      You need to draw the line between a country’s government and some of its brightest minds. This is a scientific breakthrough, and should be celebrated as such. Period.

        • viking@infosec.pub
          162·
          9 months ago

          The research has been published. Everybody in the world is free to replicate it. The CCP is no more or less capable of doing so, just because it happened on their turf.

          • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
            85·
            9 months ago

            It has been published, but a staggering number of scientific “papers” coming out of China are turning out to be complete fabrications.

            • viking@infosec.pub
              53·
              9 months ago

              Correct, so it should be independently reviewed and recreated to validate the claims. Crying wolf just because there were issues before wouldn’t be fair.

                • viking@infosec.pub
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Not when it comes to scientific research.

                  If the same person or someone acting under the same supervisor in the same faculty published some more amazing sounding research after previous ones had been debunked, I’d be sceptical.

                  But in a country with 1.4bn people and more than 3.000 universities? There’s gotta be some bad eggs, but you can’t discredit every single one due to the actions of a few.

                  I’ve met brilliant scientists in and from China.

        • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
          97·
          9 months ago

          Most of these inventions will be used by military first, in China as also in the USA, which isn’t an atom better in this and other aspect. It’s precisely the USA which use more investment in weapons and defense as any other country and not precisely for humanity reasons.