Erik Prince on Sunday Morning Futures: The US has “No Means” to Shoot Down Russia’s Mach 9 Hypersonic Ballistic Missiles that Were Just Fired on Ukraine (VIDEO)

Gateway Pundit ^ | November 24, 2024 | Jim Hoft

[Macho MAGA Man]

Erik Prince is a former Navy SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater Private Military Company.

During their discussion, Prince pointed out how Russia changed the game this past week following the taunting of the US and NATO attacks inside the Russian borders.

According to Prince, the US has “no means” to shoot down Russia’s Mach 9 hypersonic missile like the one that was fired into Ukraine last week!

[thinden]

Insanity or treason.

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treason

[wildcard_redneck]

"He has no idea what is spouting. It's just an IRBM which the Patriot Battery is designed to take out in its terminal stage. If not that then THAAD will do the trick."

Ok Baghdad Bob.... The Russians gave NATO and the U.S. a 30 minute warning before firing the missile and the missile took 15 minutes to fly in from Kazakhstan. That means NATO, the U.S. and the Ukraine had 45 minutes to figure out a way to shoot it down and couldn't.

Please explain why they didn't shoot down the missile even with a heads up of 30 minutes. If you can!

[wildcard_redneck]

"Not to mention being hypersonic requires thin air (= high altitude)."

What is high elevation to you, 400 feet? Are you aware that Dnipro sits at 500 feet above sea level and the MRIV warheads and their submunitions hit Dnipro at Mach 10? Furthermore the MRIV warheads separated at a high altitude and guided themselves in?

Hopium is a helluva drug.

[fr_freak]

Our own Matt Bracken had something to say about this:

https://rumble.com/v5rtckh-coffee-and-a-mike-matt-bracken-kremlinology-is-now-washington-dcologoy.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

[BobL]

“Erik Prince on Sunday Morning Futures: The US has “No Means” to Shoot Down Russia’s Mach 9 Hypersonic Ballistic Missiles that Were Just Fired on Ukraine”

Not just that, THEY ARE HIGHLY MOBILE - so they’re first-strike proof also.

Checkmate for the Neocons.

[BobL]

“Demonic Obama shut down our work toward hyper sonics”

In defense of him and the Neocons, they needed the money to start wars against Russia.

(not exactly the ‘smartest’ strategy in the end, I’d say)

[TalBlack]

At this point the ability to hit that thing, if we have it, isn’t something we’d talk about.

[R0CK3T]

Not all hypersonic missiles are the same. ICBMs are clearly mach 5 plus so they classify as such but really they don’t compare or compete with the 2 new lethal types. Because of their parabolic trajectory even at mach 25 they get taken out.

The first new type is a cruise type missile, low altitude. From what we’ve read they hard to see and track and if the get mobility are almost impossible to stop.

Second new type is a hypersonic glide vehicle type and are hard to track especially if they have the significant mobility that has been talked about.

It’s hard to say if our air defense systems and interceptors can do an effective job because we would need their munitions to test out to see.

It’s certainly dicey but if the new categories of hypersonic missiles come as advertised then I’m inclined to agree that our ability to stop them is not great at best.

[your other brother]

There have been hypersonic missiles for 80 years. The V2’s the German’s launched against Britain were hypersonic. A Patriot battery shot down half a dozen Kinzhals over Kieve earlier this year. There is nothing magical, mystical, or particularly new about missiles that travel 5X the speed of sound. In a real war the Kinzhals have to be launched from aircraft and in a war with NATO there would not be any Russian aircraft after the first week so unless we are talking a first strike attack in a nuclear war which would produce a nuclear winter that would destroy Russian agriculture and from which nobody would “win” the Kinzhals are irrelevant. The real problem is Russia and the west tit for tatting their way into an all out war from which again there would be no winner. Russia has not hardened its airbases and planes sit out on the apron east targets that would be wiped out quickly.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ukraine-and-the-kinzhal-dont-believe-the-hypersonic-hype/

[PIF]

Easy - new missile, gain data and abilities on it, etc. It did no damage, but gave away lots of data and lots gained from recovered parts.

Its nothing special to pin your flagging hopes on. The Russians only made 10 of them and so only have 9 remaining - until they get the parts to make more.

[wildcard_redneck]

"Easy - new missile, gain data and abilities on it, etc. It did no damage, but gave away lots of data and lots gained from recovered parts."

Uhm, it wiped out the tanks and equipment repair facility in Dnipro without explosives due to the kinetic energy of the supersonic inert munitions.

Quit lying, its a sh^tty look for you and the forum.

[wildcard_redneck]

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the use of the new missile, coupled with the latest bombardment of about 460 drones last week, proved Russia viewed his country as nothing but a firing range.”

Lmfao!

[tony549]

The THAAD is designed to intercept IRBMs. It has a higher and wider engagement basket than the Patriot and I suspect that in a pinch it could intercept ICBM RVs that are closer to target. Once IRBM or ICBM RVs get within a couple dozen miles of target they will have slowed down to ~Mach 4-5 and will be on essentially ballistic trajectories.

[SaveFerris]

😆😄🤣

[SaveFerris]

(Demonic Obama)

An accurate description of Barack Hussein Obama.

This is an open, public mockery of Almighty God.

An open defiance against God that cannot and will not end well.

Genesis chapter 19 again.

(It is completely delusional and madness to teach that a man can become a woman and that a woman can become a man.)

Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama is an excellent smooth-talking false prophet working for the Deceiver Satan, his real father - John 8:44

Barack Obama's Rainbow White House was June 26, 2015

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks. Perfect answer.

I was going to ask if anyone thought the US had a missile defense system for regular ICBMs. The answer is, not hardly!

The basic article seems written as some sort of scare tactic for people who believe we do have some kind of missile defense.

[ro_dreaming]

https://www.youtube.com/@habitual_linecrosser

You should check this guy out. He’s hiliarous.

[Widget Jr]

In 2017, Prince wanted an private air force in Afghanistan for reconnaissance and COIN. As if the allied air forces were not already capable of it and a private air force could operate and achieve in ways regular air forces could not.

Late 2021, when Russia was building up forces along Ukraine's border, Price wanted a "lend lease" plan to send 200 recently decommissioned combat planes to Ukraine. He said that this would have deterred Russia's Invasion. As if a last-minute dump of retired aircraft would come with the pilots, ground crews and logistics for maintenance and munitions, and air operations, without direct NATO involvement in the war.

Prince was a Navy SEAL. He was not in the Air Force and does not know how to run an air combat, does not know how ballistic missiles or air defenses work. What ballistic missile defenses the US is working on, Prince is not going to know until he sees it in the news.

Take what he says beyond what he knows with a few grains of salt.

[Mastador1]

No means that he knows of, I somehow doubt that he has been read into every defense project there is. Former Navy Seal and Blackwater private military member doesn’t give you an all access pass to secret projects.

[Alas Babylon!]

That first factoid isn’t true.

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Americas-Nuclear-Triad/

There are 400 active LGM-30G Minuteman IIIs, each with three MIRVs. Total nuclear weapons = 1,200 warheads.

There are 14 American Ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), each with 20 Trident missiles with 3 warheads each. That’s 14 X 20 = 280 missiles with 840 warheads.

By air (most of the nuclear arsenal of the USA is air carried):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb#Deployment

There are 72 active B-52H bombers with 20 nuclear cruise missiles in its inventory and 20 B-2s. For the B-2s, Each bay carries eight bomb racks, and in the nuclear role the bomber can carry an assortment of up to sixteen B61-7 bombs (10–360 kilotons), B61-11 bombs (400 kilotons) or B-83-1 thermonuclear bombs (1.2 megatons). Not all carry nuclear weapons but which do is kept classified.

The B61 has been deployed by a variety of US military aircraft. US aircraft cleared for its use have included the B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, F/A-18 Hornet, A-6 Intruder, A-4 Skyhawk, F-111, F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-35A. The B61 can fit inside the F-22 Raptor’s weapons bays and is also carried by the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. How many are deployed currently is classified. Missions can be set up in a matter of minutes to hours, if necessary.

There are 600 B61 Gen 7s, 215 Gen 10s, 50 Gen 11s and 300 Gen 12s. The Gen 13s are being tested, but only a handful have been built.