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Top 5 Aerial Weapons That Could Change the Future of Warfare
The Blaze ^
| 12/2/11
| Buck Sexton
Posted on 12/02/2011 10:47:05 AM PST by Nachum
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posted on
12/02/2011 10:47:08 AM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Seems if it goes that fast, then all the target has to do is cut power as soon as it senses the approach, and the missile will probably overshoot. Power cut would be near instantaneous. I doubt anything that fast can make a very tight turn.
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posted on
12/02/2011 10:52:03 AM PST
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: stuartcr
I doubt anything that fast can make a very tight turn. Filed under "famous last words."
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posted on
12/02/2011 10:57:33 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Newt Gingrich: The go-to guy for a party that is determined to waste yet another decade.)
To: Nachum
3) Hyper Speed Bunker Buster
Ah, another WWII idea. There was the "Disney bomb", a rocket assisted munition designed, iirc, for the U-boat pens.
Accuracy being what it was in those days...it wasn't all that big of a success.
To: stuartcr
Seems like, at that speed, wouldn’t matter if the target ‘cuts power’. As you mentioned, the weapon is moving so fast that it is doubtful it would even have time to ‘change course’ enough to miss the target.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:03:24 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Nachum
Aw, they forgot the Firefox. Then again....not everyone can think in Russian. I always wondered how a Mach 5 fighter was able to fire cannons in a dogfight. Silly Hollywood.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:05:22 AM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2012)
To: UCANSEE2
I’m sure that variable is included in the testing.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:11:42 AM PST
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: Nachum
Rods from God. Imagine if a country had a robotic space plane that could maneuver in orbit for months at a time, and enough payload capacity to hold several dozen (guess) Tungsten rods.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:19:13 AM PST
by
Jack of all Trades
(Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
To: Nachum
A magpie with a machine gun.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:33:26 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: stuartcr
That is assuming the target is moving in the first place.
At 5x (3500mph) the closing speed would be so fast if it was a vehicle it would need some good brakes, a ship couldn’t alter course fast enough.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
True, I was thinking about another missile or aircraft.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:52:42 AM PST
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: stuartcr
google losat videos and watch what happens as losats close in on moving targets.
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:54:21 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: Nachum
A grouse with a grenade.
“Look at the grouse! Look at the grouse!”
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posted on
12/02/2011 11:55:02 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Calvin Locke
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:04:18 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
(“Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address” - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: Nachum
Do you suppose the Senate wants us to have preemptive stuff that really works?
No!
They’re afraid we’d use it....and then we’d be “arrogant”......
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:04:48 PM PST
by
G Larry
("I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his Character.")
To: Jack of all Trades
I think you're right on here. Aircraft(probably UAVs) skimming the upper atmosphere or stationary platforms with kinetic projectiles are coming, it's just a matter of time. From what I've read about this, a platform launching three or four 100kg rods from space will definitely ruin someone's day! Wonder what the actual blast/shock radius of that would be?
To: from occupied ga
Definitely good at ground or ocean targets. Is this aerial weapon a losat?
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:14:40 PM PST
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: Nachum
The weapons that will change modern warfare already exist: Three lower-yield nuclear weapons, launched from merchant vessels near the coasts of the United States and detonated in the upper atmosphere would destroy the American economy and disrupt American society for generations.
Spending another cent on any defense R&D before hardening our electronic systems is preparing to fight the last (conventional) war instead of facing the real (terrorist/rogue state) enemy.
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:19:11 PM PST
by
TonyInOhio
(Ohio's four seasons: Rain, Snow, Rain & Snow, and Humid)
To: Jack of all Trades
The X-37 is being kept in orbit longer than expected, and Iran keeps having mishaps at its weapons facilities.
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posted on
12/02/2011 12:26:30 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: UCANSEE2
At Mach 5, 1 mile a second, I think you’re right.
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