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Hypersonic Weapons: Overhyped or Superweapons? - threats, challenges & has the USA fallen behind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3fjoacL20 ^ | 4/30/2023 | Perun

Posted on 04/30/2023 11:19:39 AM PDT by Chode

Apr 30, 2023 Besides atomic ordnance, perhaps no weapon system commands public and media attention like hypersonics. No other weapon, when used in Ukraine, is basically guaranteed to command a news cycle.

And yet their importance is hotly debated. There are those who argue the US has fallen behind in an absolutely critical field of military technology - and likewise others who argue the entire class of systems represent an overhyped waste of money.

In this episode I try and provide at least an introduction to that multi-billion dollar question.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
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excellent breakdown of hypersonics...
1 posted on 04/30/2023 11:19:39 AM PDT by Chode
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To: Chode

Such weapons have been hypersonic since the German V 2 rocket.


2 posted on 04/30/2023 11:23:28 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Chode

As long as we think hypersonics aren’t real, we won’t have to deal with any sunk carriers.


3 posted on 04/30/2023 11:48:11 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Chode

Love the details in the video. Thanks for sharing.


4 posted on 04/30/2023 12:03:11 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Bonemaker

Hypersonic means 5x speed of sound, V2 was a bit over 3x.


5 posted on 04/30/2023 1:02:13 PM PDT by powerset
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To: Bonemaker

sounds like you’d watched the video the way you said that...


6 posted on 04/30/2023 1:09:36 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Tell It Right

welcome


7 posted on 04/30/2023 1:09:57 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Tell It Right

Meanwhile Bakmut is being rolled up. I find it curious Bakmut’s demise has lost all mention from western MSM and Biden’s war cheerleaders. Gone is Zelensky’s visit to Bakmut declaring Bakmut will not fall….well…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOi9Zfe-z54

Avdiika, Marylinka’s fate also appears to be going the way of Marioupol…..still waiting for the delayed, much advertised grand Ukie offensive, I am sure it will be “ grand” according to western MSM’s narrative.


8 posted on 04/30/2023 1:22:37 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

“””I find it curious Bakmut’s demise has lost all mention from western MSM and Biden’s war cheerleaders.”””

Why would you just make that up?

The normal reporting on Bakhmut is still going on as usual.

It must be the same reason you use the fake catchphrase “warmonger” to describe the victims and opponents of Russia’s making war.


9 posted on 04/30/2023 1:32:14 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: powerset

My bad...V2 merely super sonic?


10 posted on 04/30/2023 1:35:15 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ansel12

Examples from your claim?


11 posted on 04/30/2023 1:51:16 PM PDT by delta7
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To: ansel12

12 western MSM mention of Bakmut in the last 20 hours……I stopped counting the Bakmut articles at 80 something during the corrupted little beggars visit…..
I am sure it has nothing to do with the Ukies in their final stage of defeat in Bakmut…..or maybe the Putin puffer search engine I am using….

In any case, let’s agree that Bakmut can no longer be used, Artyomovsk is the Russian name for the city.


12 posted on 04/30/2023 2:03:23 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Just google Bakhmut for the last week and look at topics post on FR for the same.

Some of us are reading about, and posting on Bakhmut every day.

Why don’t you show how Bakhmut had ceased being mentioned and I also think that you might be the freeper that has been using that line for weeks, similar to how you do the Orwellian use of “warmonger” to describe the opponents of your war and invasion.


13 posted on 04/30/2023 2:06:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Chode

Who besides the USA created and flew a plane as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird.

The first of that string of birds created by Kelly Johnson first flew in 1963.


14 posted on 04/30/2023 2:07:01 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: delta7

Yep, lots of coverage.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bakhmut&newwindow=1&tbm=nws&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjL5fvkwdL-AhVtFjQIHZLtB6QQpwV6BAgBEAg&biw=1229&bih=608&dpr=1.56


15 posted on 04/30/2023 2:09:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Texas Fossil
"Who besides the USA created and flew a plane as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird."

The SR-71 could only do maybe Mach 3.5. The X-15 could do Mach 6. The Space Shuttle does Mach 25, did stick.

16 posted on 04/30/2023 2:49:12 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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