This is scary even if it’s partially true as Obama tears down our military.
We’ll get caught with our pants down.
Every ICBM warhead has reentry speed of about 4 miles/second (about 14,000 MPH)--supersonic is 650-750 MPH depending on altitude. That's by definition, you schmuck. If it didn't have those flight characteristics, it wouldn't be an ICBM.
This is the word of an "expert"? In media language, "military expert" is "journalist who gets put on that desk because it was vacant when he showed up his first day of work". And I use the term "journalist" because it always gets a laugh.
“Russia’s new RS-26 missile travels along a continuously changing trajectory and as such it has no analogues in the world,” the expert said.
The Advanced Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle was fielded by McDonnel-Douglas in the 1970s and has been carried by the Minuteman missile since then.
Have I been the only person to notice that the media has been flooded by these bogus Chinese and Russian "killer weapon that nobody has ever seen before" stories? I doubt it. What's sad is that the American news media just parrots this garbage because having any military knowledge is taboo among them. Judging by the response on FR, the average person isn't much better.