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>Starship

Revolutionary, cheap with unheard of performance AND it is fully reusuable. True inheritor of the title; King of Rockets from Saturn V.

>SLS Block 2

A complete fantasy variant of a rocket that is a failure before it was even conceived of as a concept. Decent theoretical performance is the only positive thing I can say about it.

>New Glenn

Too slow, too late. If New Glenn was introduced in the early to mid 2010's, it would've been a Falcon-9/Heavy competitor that could seriously give SpaceX some fierce competition and Blue Origin would've had similar levels of respect that SpaceX enjoys today. It has good performance but it will appear in a world where Starship will reign supreme, not Falcon-9/Heavy.

>Angara-A5

Obscelent and very uncompetative in a commercial setting but should serve Roscosmos and the Russian military well. It is a good replacement of the Proton-M with a minor increase in performance.

>Vulcan

An American Angara-A5 wich is very, VERY bad news for ULA, it has to compete in the future not only with New Glenn but with Starship and Falcon Heavy (If Falcon hasnt been retired yet). In this regard, it is obselete and dead on arrival. At least with Angara, the Russian government in form of Roscosmos and the military, can support a native rocket to support its rocket company (Khrunichev) and have independency. ULA has no such comfort.