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My understanding of plasmas is that they consist of ionized atoms. Ionized atoms tend to be highly reactive since an ionized state is an unstable state. That would appear to result in anything going through that plasma to be corroded or otherwise degraded. This may not be a big problem with a hypersonic vehicle where you are trading off plasma degradation to high temperature friction degradation. But at far subsonic speeds, our vehicles typically see little surface degradation due to the air friction.
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