reusable "hypersonic vehicle" that could fly at six times the speed of sound and deliver 12,000lb of bombs anywhere in the world within minutes. The bombs' destructive power would be multiplied by the Earth's gravitational pull as they travelled at up to 25 times the speed of sound towards their target.
Who knows what might be 200m below the center of Mt Everest. But let's find out only take a few min. Maybe there as a 15 ton diamond.
A half billion to defense contractors to develop the thing, probably over the next 10-20 years--that's a lot of salary for a lot of incompetent generals to collect after they retire from the military in 14 months.
