E-111 Amphibious space shuttle can be a very useful tool for commercial and military purposes.
The amphibious, suborbital space shuttle, which is created by the ARCA-corporation can be the answer to the noise problem of the space rockets. Those space shuttles can be carried to the outer sea by using ships, or if those systems have wheels, they could fly to the sea like normal aircraft. At sea, the tanks of the rocket engine can be filled by using hydrogen and oxygen. Those gases can be separated from the water by using electrolysis and then they can be liquidizing by using the cooling system, which can be installed to the ship.
Or in some futuristic visions, the small shuttle can have the capillary turbine, which would give the electricity to the cooling and electrolysis units, which can produce the fuel inside the shuttle. That makes this kind of systems operate without the need for special platforms. And that can make those systems more sophisticated. The thing is that this kind of shuttle can launch from the sea without disturbing people is something incredible. But the thing is that this kind of space technology can also be used in the recon shuttles, which must be shot secretly.
Also, this kind of system can benefit in the space fighters, what mission is to destroy the satellites and it can also be used with regular jet fighters. If the small-size space shuttle is equipped with rocket scramjet or ramjet engines, where the flaps are closing the front inlet before the speed of the aircraft is high enough. During the acceleration, the engine is working like a normal rocket engine, but when the speed is high enough, the flaps would be open, and the engine starts to take oxygen from the atmosphere. The maximum speed of the ramjet engine is about Mach 6, and the scramjet engine can ignite in the speed of Mach 5.
So in some ideas, the acceleration of the super-fast aircraft would happen in stages. At the first normal turbojets would accelerate the aircraft to the speed of Mach 1,5. Then the ramjet engine would accelerate the aircraft to the speed of Mach 5-6 and then the scramjets would be started.
But another version simply equips the engine with frontal flaps, and accelerate the aircraft by using those engines as rockets. That means that in the combustion chamber will be injected the oxygen and propellant until the speed of the aircraft is high enough, the oxygen can be taken from the atmosphere. At that moment the oxygen injection stops.
The rocket scramjet or ramjet allows the spacecraft to operate also in the atmosphere. If the normal jet fighters would use the amphibious technology, that allows the naval air force to operate without aircraft carriers by using high-performance attack and fighter aircraft. The jet fighter that is equipped with the rocket scramjet can rise above the atmosphere, and then dive against the aerial or ground targets with the speed that is about Mach 10.
ARCA: https://www.arcaspace.com/
SCRAMJET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
RAMJET:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet
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