Defense Express: A Historical Nightmare For The Kremlin

Germany will get an aerospace vehicle in 2027.

The Bundeswehr is set to receive the Hypersonic Test and Experimentation Vehicle, a reusable fighter jet-sized hypersonic aerospace vehicle for defense research, in 2027.

The military portal Defense Express, the HYTEV is to be built by Bremen-based startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge, which was awarded a development contract in February and is now set to build a prototype.

This hypersonic aerospace system is to consist of two stages. The first stage, actually the carrier, will have two turbofan engines and a wedge-air jet engine (Aerospike). The second stage will have only a liquid rocket engine. A rendering of this system has also been shown.

The first stage will take off like an airplane, accelerate to hypersonic speeds of over Mach 5 and ascend into the upper atmosphere. When the appropriate flight parameters are reached, a rocketplane will launch from it, which will be capable of launching up to 1,000 kg of payload into orbit. Both components are reusable and unmanned.

The cost of developing and building HYTEV is not announced. Analysts note that the timeline for this aerospace system has been pushed back from 2028 to late 2027. "And this is a rather non-trivial change in the timing of the work, because usually they move only 'to the right'," they emphasized.

It is noted that for the German armed forces, getting such a system will be a revolutionary leap in capabilities. After all, we are talking about getting a reusable aerospace system that can quickly and on unexpected trajectories to put into orbit quite large cargo.

"And this is the Kremlin's historical nightmare since the 70s, when the U.S. began to develop the Space Shuttle. Because back then, Moscow was mistakenly convinced that it was an orbital bomber that would be capable of diving into the atmosphere in one revolution around the Earth, bombing the USSR and landing in the US for reuse. And it was in response to that, for similar tasks, that the Buran combat rocketplane was created," Defense Express noted.

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