Talk:DCTA 14-X

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Page overhaul

The 14-X is a hypersonic engine in development, not a vehicle in itself. The 14-X S, 14-X SP, 14-X W, 14-X WP are vehicles built to demonstrate the 14-X engine. As such, much of content in the page was misleading or confusing and had to be cleaned up.

"Hypersonic glide vehicle" The 14-XW and 14-XWP will be gliders, the first two demonstrators will use a VSB-30 booster.
"Short Range Ballistic Missile" Whilst hypersonic technology can be used for ballistic missiles, there is no known Brazilian SRBM in use or in development which involves the 14-X scramjet.
Specifications section: The right way to do this would be by having one of those sections for each of the demonstrator vehicles, but I couldn't find the data.
Apogee of the 14-X S test flight: One of the images in the Air Force article (https://www.fab.mil.br/noticias/mostra/38395/OPERA%C3%A7%C3%A3O%20CRUZEIRO%20-%20FAB%20realiza%20primeiro%20teste%20de%20voo%20do%20motor%20aeron%C3%A1utico%20hipers%C3%B4nico%2014-X) lists it as 280km (https://www.fab.mil.br/sis/enoticias/imagens/original/43035/opcruzeiro2.jpeg) but the text mentions it as 160km. This CNN article (https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/business/conheca-o-projeto-14-x-de-tecnologia-hipersonica-desenvolvido-pela-fab/) chose the 160km option, and I think it's probably the right choice here as well.

--Jesterr35 (talk) 16:27, 01 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://defesabrasil.com/site/noticias/noticias/fab-testa-14-x-em-tunel-hipersonico.php
- In 14X on 2011-06-01 15:51:17, 404 Not Found
- In 14X on 2011-06-20 05:11:09, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 05:11, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]