Posted on 12/26/2018 10:11:46 AM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Russia conducted another successful test of a hypersonic weapon system capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the Kremlin announced Wednesday.
Moscow's hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, has been in development for three decades and can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or about one mile per second.
The weapon, which the U.S. is currently unable to defend against, is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile. Once launched, it uses aerodynamic forces to sail on top of the atmosphere.
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From what I hear, it goes up 60 miles. Time to gets the lasers out.
Who cares ?
How about all your alcoholic depressed males ?
“The Doomsday Device”
Its that the DEMs on the select committees keep killing our leading edge development programs.
Only takes ONE Senator on the Select Committee to kill a program in R&D.
I know sukoi does his best to keep us all terrified of russian military mastery of the universe, but this is the same country that has an aircraft carrier that doesn’t get underway without taking it’s own tug to pull it back into port after it breaks down — nor can it launch or recover aircraft.
I’m confident that if they ever tried to use this thing, it would miss the sky.
Just get a ladder sixty miles and one foot tall.
A laser is only viable hitting the boost vehicle on the way up. Russians may have issues with us moving the lasers in near their launch facilities.
We had this many years ago. I think it was called SWIRV. Hitting a bullet with a bullet difficulty goes up significantly if the bullet is maneuvering. But it needs to be in the atmosphere to maneuver. It also makes the predicted impact point very difficult.
At that speed maneuvering in the atmosphere is pretty much impossible. It’s like a bullet changing course.
The first time I saw a Soviet Aircraft Carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, conducting flight ops, we could see the flight deck crew smoking cigarettes and most had no shirts, shorts and flip-flops. You could actually see the thick black smoke from the ship well before she came into view.
IIRC, the Pershing IRBM had a maneuvering reentry vehicle. For target accuracy, not evasion I seem to recall.
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