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Air Force Says New Hypersonic Missile Will Hit Targets 1,000 Miles Away In Under 12 Minutes
thedrive.com ^ | 10/13/2020 | thomas newdick

Posted on 10/13/2020 9:29:29 PM PDT by bitt

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To: Beowulf9

Just don’t hit the ice cream freezer.


101 posted on 10/14/2020 3:12:27 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Just don’t hit the ice cream freezer.


While the ice cream freezer is important - the coke a cola machine is huge.


102 posted on 10/14/2020 3:20:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: The Duke
What ever happened to keeping such information secret?

Exactly, and we see this "advertising" often, which serves to incite enemies to further develop their own - in which the US is playing catch-up. Maybe this advertising is designed to do that and thus increase funding for defense industry, but it seems like those engaging in this advertising would have told the world about the Manhattan Project. Of course, maybe they figure the WaPO or NYT spy agencies would expose it anyway thru their liberal "unnamed anonymous officials."

103 posted on 10/14/2020 5:15:31 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: bitt
One day these may even out perform what China and Russia have, or will in response to this advertising.
104 posted on 10/14/2020 5:17:25 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: bitt; Fred Nerks; Lazamataz; LucyT

Kawabunga dude!

That’s faster than a speeding bullet!

1000 miles in 12 minutes.

5 x 12 = 60 minutes

5 x 1000 = 5000

That’s 5000 miles per hour.

Some bullets travel at lesser velocities.

The ChiComs won’t even have a chance to push their buttons if we launch a pre-emptive strike.

Won Hung-Lo won’t like this at all!


105 posted on 10/14/2020 5:18:48 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: politicket

“ However, you also need to take into consideration that China has a HUGE population of single men who will never, ever be married thanks to their one-child policy...”

When they see their once growing economy degrading the CCP is at more danger from those spoiled young men than we are.


106 posted on 10/14/2020 5:51:06 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Oh, did I put up that picture of Pelosi’s house on here?

Huh.


107 posted on 10/14/2020 8:08:04 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Candor7

“Some bullets travel at lesser velocities.”

Virtually all of them do, other than rail guns, that is over 7,000 fps.


108 posted on 10/14/2020 10:43:58 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: Rockingham
"Sending a wing of B-52s with the missile to Guam, for example, offers a warning to China and North Korea. "

Yep!
It gives China & NK warning about the enormous tidal wave approaching them when Guam finally tips over from the extra weight of those arrow-carrying B-52's...

109 posted on 10/14/2020 12:17:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Ancesthntr

“ICBMs are actually easier to intercept these days”

Not really. Warhead tech evolves.


110 posted on 10/14/2020 12:22:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: datura

Very true, and the warhead tech has been significantly upgraded over the years. I have full faith that every last warhead would hit their targets.


111 posted on 10/14/2020 12:24:10 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

Uh, my post #28 never mentioned anything about the “ease” of intercepting ICBMs. I was talking about the utter impracticality of 100 MT nukes, and the virtual impossibility of a rocket with several 100 MT MIRVs.


112 posted on 10/14/2020 4:19:43 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: doorgunner69

Virtually all of them do, other than rail guns, that is over 7,000 fps.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

(You are 100% correct. I was too lazy to do the Math so I said “some.”)

Rifle bullets travel in the range of 3000 to 3500 fps, and this ARRW does 7000 fps. Its an extraordinary achievement of aeronautic engineering and materials engineering.

I can see why PDJT is saying, “ you wouldn’t BELIEVE the weapons our military has..... , “ at his rallies. The ARRW is one of the things he is referring to.

There is not a ship on the oceans surface that cannot be obliterated within 15 minutes, within any oceanic hemisphere of the earth. No wonder we have started a US Space Force, it makes eminent sense from a targeting perspective as we move forward with military high tech.

Thank you for your post, and accuracy.


113 posted on 10/15/2020 4:01:14 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: politicket
China has a great amount of cannon fodder they can deploy to any spot on the globe - not caring if they live or die.

They have the troops, true. But not the deployment capability.

114 posted on 10/16/2020 8:35:45 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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