[laplata]

“Can they fly faster than the speed of light?

Because if not, they are going to have a tough time dodging a navy’s laser anti-missile defenses”.

Not if they are not detected before it’s too late.

Never, never, underestimate any enemy.

[BenLurkin]

Some will probably get through. Maybe more than a few. War is always unpredictable.

[Vermont Lt]

Radar and AWACS aircraft can look down on the sea and detect motion. These things move fast, but the are not undetectable.

[Renfrew]

How Russia says their missiles operate:



How they actually operate:

[Leaning Right]

> Never, never, underestimate any enemy. <

The West has always underestimated Asian powers. And that never went well. A prime example of that is the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905. Little upstart Japan knocked the snot out of Imperial Russia.

Oops. Maybe I shouldn’t have said “And that never went well.” The West did win the Opium Wars (something that angers China to this day).