美国第3架X-51A飞行器“乘波者”试飞失败及一些评论

酱油宅

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An unmanned hypersonic jet failed and broke up seconds into a test flight yesterday in the latest setback to hit one of the US military's most cutting-edge engineering projects, which could now be under threat.  
The X-51A Waverider was designed to hit speeds of up to 3,600mph, six-times the speeds of sound, for a period of five minutes after being dropped from a B-52 bomber during a high-altitude flight.
一架无人超音速喷气机在昨天的试验飞行开始数秒后就炸成了数块，这一最新的挫折无疑打击了美军最尖端的工程项目之一，使其现在面临着威胁。
按计划，X-51A乘波者由一架高空飞行的B-52轰炸机投放后，在5分钟内冲击最高3600英里每小时的速度，是声速的6倍。

The craft was successfully launched from its mothership during its test-flight on Tuesday, its development team disclosed yesterday, and everything seemed to be fine initially when its rocket booster engaged, firing it away at rapid speed. But a faulty control fin meant the prototype’s main engine – the revolutionary but still largely untested supersonic-combustion ramjet, or “scramjet” as it is known – was unable to start.
它的开发小组昨天披露，在周二的试验飞行中，这只飞行器成功地从母舰上发射。当它的火箭助推器点火并使其快速飞走时，一切看起来都很正常，不过，一只有缺陷的操纵舵使得这架原型机的主引擎——革命性的但是很大程度未经测试的 超音速燃烧冲压喷气发动机——无法启动。

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Controllers realised they had a problem just 16 seconds after the Waverider’s rocket booster engaged. When it detached 15 seconds later, the machine quickly lost control and disintegrated, sending the remains crashed into an area of the Pacific Ocean north-west of Los Angeles at Point Mugu.
乘波者的火箭助推器点火后仅仅16秒，控制者就意识到出了岔子。分离15秒之后，这架机器就迅速失去控制并解体，剩余的残骸坠入洛杉矶西北方穆古岬的太平洋区域。

"It is unfortunate that a problem with this sub-system caused a termination before we could light the scramjet engine," said Charlie Brink from the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. "All our data showed we had created the right conditions for engine ignition and we were very hopeful to meet our test objectives.”
“不幸的是，在我们发动这个超燃冲压发动机之前，这个子系统的一个问题导致了宕机，”来自 俄亥俄州赖特-帕特森空军基地美国空军研究实验室的 Charlie Brink 说道，“我们所有的数据都显示我们已经满足了发动机点火的正确条件，我们非常希望能实现试验目标。”

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Hopes had been high for the project, which has been looking into the possibility of developing technologies allowing the US Air Force to launch ultrafast strikes on enemy targets – as well as allowing a potential successor to Concorde to fly from London to New York in just one hour.
这个项目一直被寄予厚望。它一直在试图发展科技以便美国空军对敌方目标发动极速打击，同时研制协和式客机的后继者——在一小时内从伦敦飞到纽约。

The first test flight of the experimental jet in 2010 was largely successful, with the Waverider reaching a velocity of five-times the speed of sound for three minutes. A problem with the rocket booster not separating from the main craft sent the second trial falling into the sea last year, however.
这架试验机在2010年首次试飞中获得巨大的成功，乘波者进行了持续三分钟的五倍音速飞行。但是在去年，火箭助推器没能从主机体上脱离的问题使第二次试验机直接栽进了大海。

Reports said that the control subsystem which was at fault in the latest trial had previously proved to be reliable.
报告声称，上一次试验中出错的控制子系统在之前已经证明是可靠的。

With only four of the X-51A vehicles having been built, it is unclear when or if the final model will be used.
目前只建造了四架X-51A，尚不清楚最后一架何时以及是否会被启用。


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Good that this failed. Hypersonic civilian jets would be a good thing, I suppose, but Pentagon was after faster missiles. The world doesn't need faster, but fewer missiles.
失败了是好事。我觉得超音速客机是个好东西，但是五角大楼追求的是更快的导弹。世界不需要更快的导弹，而是更少。

Joe White • 15 hours ago
You might be right but I do wonder if this might make the launching of spacecraft a bit cheaper one day. Rather than using bottled oxygen right from the launch it could use atmospheric oxygen until it got too high.
你也许是对的，不过我很好奇这项目能否让将来的太空船发射便宜那么一点。
不再是从发射开始就一直使用瓶装氧气，飞船可以消耗大气中的氧，直到它爬的够高（冲出大气层）。

Raimo Kangasniemi • 11 hours ago
Ok, apparently outside links lead to moderation, so without the link to Skylon: Japan has civilian plans of this nature and has flown test flights, GB has the mostly privately funded, unmanned single stage to orbit Skylon that is now getting some development money for it's SABRE engines from ESA.
显然外部链接都指向一些缓和、减速之类的观点，没有链接提到云霄塔（欧洲航天局的空天飞机）：日本也有此方面的民用计划，而且已经有过一些试飞，英国拥有基本是私下建立的无人单级平台（译者：此处可能有误，请指正）进行云霄塔的绕轨飞行，欧洲航天局正在为其配备的SABRE（协同式吸气火箭引擎）提供研究资金。

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douchenburger • 13 hours ago
I think you're living in a different world.
我想你们生活在另一个不同的世界吧。

oxforddon • 18 hours ago
Would you say that if you were being persecuted in Syria?
如果你在叙利亚受到迫害了你会说什么？

Raimo Kangasniemi • 11 hours ago
Hypersonic missiles wouldn't liberate a single person from oppression. These kind of high-tech weaponry target basically China and Russia and are intended to get past their air defenses.
  极超音速导弹不会让一个人从压迫中解放出来。这种高科技武器主要目标是中国和俄罗斯，目的在于穿过他们的防空系统。

grimkm • 16 hours ago
I think so. I think I'd be hoping the missiles would stop dropping on me..but hey, that's just me. Perhaps you'd wanan fire some back or have more drop on you?
我同意。我希望导弹不会炸到我头上，但是，只有我哦。也许你希望的是相互攻击，导弹落在你头上？

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RabbitNexus • 3 hours ago
Since the violence in Syria is mainly by and because of the Syrian rebels who are actually just foreign mercenaries and the crazy end of the Muslim world such as al-Qaeda, I'd say it is lucky for the Syrian Christians, Alaawites and Shiites as well as moderate Sunnis that the Syrian army is well enough armed to repel these terrorists.
既然叙利亚的暴力事件主要是由外国雇佣兵和穆斯林极端分子（如基地组织）组成的叛军引起，我得说，叙利亚的基督徒、阿拉维派、什叶派和温和的逊尼派教徒都是幸运的，因为叙利亚军队装备精良，足以击退这些恐怖分子。

NeilM639 • a day ago
There will be few tears shed at the failure of this expensive and obscene project.
  没多少人会为这种昂贵而可憎的项目失败流泪的。

spikebat • 17 hours ago
Spare a thought for the shareholders........
想想那些股东……

CrystalForce • 12 hours ago
You can buy US Military shares?
你能买美军的股份？

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maias • 7 hours ago
yep. The US military shares it bombs with you - it's called collateral damage. You don't have to buy - it's sent free of charge
  是的。美军会和你分享他们的炸弹—那叫做附带损害。你不需要出钱买—免费派发给你的。

Ian C. Purdie - Sydney • a day ago
American war toys.
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to devote funds, effort and technology toward more peaceful purposes the world needs?
美国的战争玩具。
将资金、努力和科技投入到世界需要的更和平的目的中，难道不更有益处吗？

Raimo Kangasniemi • a day ago
It's easier to get money for military and development of military tech than to peaceful purposes in the US political system. Peaceful purposes can be easily claimed to be just waste of money, but few politicians there dare to criticize military spending of this nature, as doing so is seen as unpatriotic.
在美国政治系统中，为了军事和相关科技研究比为了和平目的更容易拿到钱。和平目的很容易被说成浪费金钱，但很少有政客敢以类似理由指责军事花费，因为这么做被视为不爱国。

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leeblued • 16 hours ago
Ian C. Purdie - Sydney Well said Ian , but you know what the reality is ..................
Ian C. Purdie - Sydney 说得好。但是你知道真相是……

Ron E. Thorpe • 8 hours ago
The reality is, Ian, that the militaries of Russia and America have had Antigravity craft for more than a generation and have been paled up since the sixties to fend off possible and expected parasitic ET forces. The coverup is so convoluted and damning that the PTB will go to their deaths before they will allow full disclosure as that will surely be the deaths of many monster criminals who will be exposed. Nonetheless the positive ET forces of this universe are ameliorating the impact of the negatives and have changed the game plan. All the projected scenarios reeling out from these old plans are just possibles and not absolutes and have been largely changed so as to soften the changeover to a Galactic Civilization. People are hoggwashed by all this talk of rocketry and atmospheric craft without shields is ludicrous. What can this hope to achieve considering the technologies they hide from us. The secrets will not continue intact for much longer. A fall is coming but we souls have support from the Spiritual Hierarchy and the ET community gathered here now to reveal themselves despite attempts to stop it. Very soon now...
该告诉你事情的真相了，IAN。美国和俄罗斯好几十年前就已经拥有了反重力飞行器。60年代为了抵抗可能入侵地球的外星人势力他们掩盖了这项成果。这件事非常错综复杂，该死的当权者在进棺材之前不会让全部真相浮出水面。等到那时候，那些会被曝光的可恶罪犯肯定也早进棺材了。尽管如此，宇宙里也有正面的外星人势力，他们在改善负面影响，改变旧的策略。所有旧策略能导致的情况都只是可能性，而非绝对。这些情况已经发生了巨大改变，这样可以缓和银河系文明的大变更。这些秘密不会保存太久了。巨变将要发生，外星人社会会揭示自身的存在，谁也无法阻止。现在事情很快就要发生了……
  
twistedrama • a day ago
Every technological advance humanity makes, this belligerent, paranoid, warmongering empire compulsively seeks to pervert to the cause of Mars, the God of war. The world would be a much better place without this evil empire.
美帝这个四处寻衅滋事的偏执狂和战争分子，试图滥用人类的每一项技术进步，四处点燃战火。没有这个邪恶帝国世界将更美好。

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Aliend • 21 hours ago
USA is not an empire.
I doubt the world will be better without it, as there will be someone else to fill the void & they might be worse than your current devil.
美国不是一个帝国。
我对“这世界没了它会更好”表示怀疑，因为会有其他人来填补空白，而他们可能比你现在认为的魔鬼更邪恶。

Kury Kury • 19 hours ago
Empire: supreme political power over several countries when exercised by a single authority.
It suits the US prety much, but who is the emperor, one might wonder...
  帝国的定义：由单一统治者掌控的覆盖数个国家的霸权政治力量。
它和美国相当吻合，不过谁是皇帝呢，这是个问题…

warbyothermeans • 14 hours ago
200 military bases across the globe, lawless militarism, threats against sovereign nations on a weekly basis etc etc and yet blind ignorants still try to say the US is not an empire?
If the US used its defense budget on humanitarian aid ANYONE voicing a bad word about them would be laughed out of court.
遍布全球的200个军事基地，无法无天的军国主义，对主权国家的每周例行威胁等等等等…都这样了，盲目无知的家伙们还试图说美国不是一个帝国？
如果美国把国防预算用在人道目的上，敢说他们一句坏话的人都会被一笑而过。

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twistedrama • 18 hours ago
1. USA is/has an empire; but you could say it is the dominant nation of a hegemony if that's more comfortable for you.
1、美国是一个/有一个帝国，不过你可以说它是一个占主导地位的霸权国家，如果这让你感觉更舒服。

2. I and many others would take the chance. To be rid of the USA's malign global influence would be like a wind of fresh clean air, not a void.
2、我和其他许多人都愿意赌赌运气（译者：可能指失去美国）。摆脱美国恶性的全球影响力就像是一阵新鲜干净的清风，而不是一片空白。

3. I don't subscribe to: 'Better the devil you know...' or, in Belloc's words: 'always keep a-hold of Nurse for fear of finding something worse'.
3、我不同意“熟悉的魔鬼总比不熟悉的好… ”，或者用贝洛克的话来说：“不要远离守护者的关怀，以防有更糟的事情出现”。

4. I don't believe that the empire will fall, not in my lifetime. It's a great sadness.
4、在我有生之年，我不相信这个帝国会倒塌。这是多么大的悲哀。

douchenburger • 13 hours ago
It's this or China. I'd pick USA over China every single time.
  你选这个（美国）还是中国。我每一次都会选择美国而不是中国。
（译者：他应该是和上面的人打赌将来哪国谁会更成功，下同）

twistedrama • 9 hours ago
douchenburger: OK I've never been to the USA, but I have travelled around various parts of the P. R. China maybe 30+ times over the last decade or so and, personally, I'd pick P. R. China over the USA any day of the week.
douchenburger ，好吧我没去过美国，不过我去过中国的许多地方。中国可能比上个年代强30多倍，个人来说，我无论何时都会选择中国而不是美国。

jlksdfjs • 13 hours ago
douchenburger: I'm willing to take my chances.
douchenburger:，我就愿意赌一把。

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oxforddon • 18 hours ago
Get rid of the USA and bring back the DDR and USSR now - so preferable to living in the evil West.
摆脱美国，让东德和苏联复活吧—比住在邪恶的西方好多了。

twistedrama • 9 hours ago
oxforddon: That's profoundly, but in it's own way, elegantly stupid: you want, after having got rid of the USA, to bring back the DDR and USSR. In other words, after getting rid of the rats you want to get back the infestations of fleas and the cockroaches that were previously eradicated?
You're not really an Oxford don are you? More like Donald who lives in Oxford?
oxforddon，这主意很深刻，不过它自身显得也很愚蠢：摆脱美国之后，你想复活东德和苏联，换句话说，消灭老鼠后，你又想找回我们之前斩尽杀绝的成片的跳蚤和蟑螂？
你其实不是一名牛津讲师吧？看起来更像是住在牛津的酋长？

kupfernigk • 14 hours ago
oxforddon: No USA, no USSR. They were responses to one another.
oxforddon，不要美国，也不要苏联，他们臭味相投，互相都是对方的写照。

douchenburger • 13 hours ago  
kupfernigk: No they weren't.
kupfernigk: 不，他们不是的。

如此浪费纳税人的血汗钱，这个社会怎么了？

Boilwater

这个迟早会成功的，中国也有类似的项目。

树头

新的战略制高点，谁先占领谁是老大吧？