Posted on 10/13/2020 9:29:29 PM PDT by bitt
“Yeah, terminal approach is still generally at treetop height to avoid terminal area air defense. Look at the old Phoenix AAM flight profile, it doesn’t fly direct but climbs way out first to get the range it needs. Same thing here.”
The Phoenix is air-to-air.
Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
Dutch kids huff balloons in the parking lot
The Golden Arches illuminate the business park
I eat myself to death, feed the corporate machine
I watch the movies, recite every line and scene
God bless America and all of its allies
I’m not the first to live with wool over my eyes
I am so blissfully unaware of everything
Kids in Gaza are bombed and I’m just out of it
The tensions of the world are rising higher
We’re probably due another war with all this ire
I’m not smart enough to change a thing
I have no answers, only questions, don’t you ask a thing
All the silver tongued suits and cartoons that rule my world
Are saying it’s a high time for hypersonic missiles...
(Obviously he is anti-American playing a pro-American proud of being controlled by evil propaganda.
Ironically, he is right about one thing. He actually is controlled by MSM propaganda.)
We had hypersonic missiles that didn’t actually *work*. And then we tossed all the tech, and the best we’ve done in the last 30 years was the X-51, which only hit Mach 5, failed two times out of four and only has six minutes of flight time.
I look back at the X-15 hypersonic research aircraft and it’s first flight was 1959. It too was launched from a B-52. What an achievement.
Yup, but look at the flight profile. You launch it, it goes WAY up while the motor burns, and then basically it glides back down to the target, with the last part of the flight path (depending on how programmed) at the level of the target. Same thing with hypersonic missiles - they can’t be powered the entire way to the target unless they’re really huge, so they’re going for a lot of altitude, then glide down, picking up speed on the way and often going TFR at the end. You don’t want a pure ballistic path because the other guys have THAAD equivalents too.
“Yeah, terminal approach is still generally at treetop height to avoid terminal area air defense. “
They glide down on a ‘ballistic’ path using their high speed and maneuverability to evade defenses.
Zircon is being deployed on both ships and submarines now.
Meanwhile their COVID bio weapon ravishing innocent people all over the world goes without comment? Learn that sometimes payback is a bitch!
Minuteman III, 1968 vintage, terminal velocity on re-entry is Mach 17.
Yeah. Mach 17.
Accuracy less than 30 meters.
Sorry. Nice try. Let’s see anything stop one today.
Yeah, that was the old plan, to come screaming in like an ICBM. Turns out that doesn’t work against someone with BMD, because there’s *no* way to hide the fact that something fast is reentering the atmosphere. The plasma burn of re-entry is obvious and can be seen with the naked eye, and the HSW is going to be very visible on IR. No way around it.
So, you come ‘down’ a distance away from the target and use the big nasty head of gravitational-induced velocity to glide to the target at close to treetop level.
‘Yup, but look at the flight profile. You launch it, it goes WAY up while the motor burns, and then basically it glides back down to the target, with the last part of the flight path (depending on how programmed) at the level of the target.”
The Phoenix burns all the way to the target.
“Mach 20,” eh? The rest of the article behind the link is interesting.
The SM2 Block IV and the SM6 have demonstrated the ability to knock a Minuteman III in descent phase out of the sky. This is why there is currently a crash program to replace the Minuteman series.
Tech has moved on. Terminal velocity on re-entry on India’s Agni series is Mach 24.
Our BMD program can shoot down ICBMs
https://www.defenseone.com/feature/Protecting-US-Citizens-from-Ballistic-Missiles/
From point of atmospheric entry at 90 miles up, impact is less than 20 seconds at a 45 degree entry angle. No system on earth can track, launch, and stop any MIRV. That’s why mid course intercept is best, if you can’t have boost phase defense.
Terminal entry is a fools game, given maneuvering and decoys.
The missile in this article is just another way for the military industrial deep state to spend money. That has been my point all along here.
Please explain BMD defensive measures of Russian MIRVs.
You can’t.
No, Phoenix does not burn all the way to the target. It can’t unless the target is relatively close; it certainly can’t boost for its entire 100 nautical mile range. Otherwise, it has a boost and sustain phase and a glide phase.
https://flyandwire.com/2019/07/02/aim-54-performance-study/
“Please explain BMD defensive measures of Russian MIRVs.
You can’t.”
You also shouldn’t on a public forum. How would you like to be turned into the DIS?
The MIRVs we don’t actually have on our Minutemen IIIs?
https://allthingsnuclear.org/emacdonald/the-end-of-mirvs-for-u-s-icbms
China has DF-21s that are launched from shipping containers. On any given day, how many Chinese cans arrive in US ports on board Chinese ships?
ALL Chinese maritime vessels are manned by PLAN crews. BMD requires time to acquire, much less when the launch begins in Port of Long Beach heading for San Fran, or from Bayonne to Wash DC.
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