Posted on 12/27/2019 4:19:14 PM PST by BlackAdderess
Russia's first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missiles has been put into service, the defence ministry says.
The location was not given, although officials had earlier indicated they would be deployed in the Urals.
President Vladimir Putin has said the nuclear-capable missiles can travel more than 20 times the speed of sound and put Russia ahead of other nations.
They have a "glide system" that affords great manoeuvrability and could make them impossible to defend against.
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the "Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10:00 Moscow time on 27 December", calling it a "landmark event".
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Russia wasn’t ‘cheating’. We weren’t even showing up for the game, until now.
Traveling at twenty times the speed of sound. it must have one helluva tracking / direction system. Color me skeptical.
Yes, they have been cheating. This is also why his Space Force idea makes sense.
As Mike Tyson would say. Everybody's got a plan until I hit them once.
“Color me skeptical.”
The US Navy has kept to older, slower missiles. The slow ones are more likely to arrive on target without being detected because they can fly lower. They will also reliably hit the target. I agree with your assessment on what Russian missiles can hit.
All they need is GPS/GLONASS. I’m not certain that Mach 20 is what they’ve achieved or if it’s a bad translation/transcription by mediatards, but Mach 10 is more than reasonably achievable.
Fun fact: Most Western missile defense systems can not cope with a hypersonic sea or surface skimmer.
bkmk
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks." — General "Buck" Turgidson
It’s BS. The Russians can’t keep a ship afloat.
Probably powered by Stolichnaya vodka.
Mach 20 is really fast.
The fastest thing I’ve ever worked on was a surface to air missile that would do Mach 10. At mach 10 the steel guidance surfaces (fins) would heat up from air friction and melt off before it got to its target. We fixed it with a leading edge ablation material that would turn to a gas and protect the rest of the fin. Mach 20 is a whole new set of problems.
The ruskees know aerodynamics. They also know how to steal computer items. I suspect they are not blowing smoke.
Take this with very large grains of salt folks. The Russians have been making claims like this for many many decades. It wasn’t long ago they were bragging about nuclear powered weapons.
And, after several months of hype with no proof whatsoever they had actually accomplished this the program was quietly scrapped if it ever actually existed at all.
“Color me skeptical.”
20 times the speed of sound in the atmosphere? I thought only UFOs could do that.
Agree. Maneuverability at high speed tends to take a severe toll on accuracy. If the target is hard that toll may mean a weapon expended to little or no advantage.
My entire adult life, the Russians have exaggerated and overstated the capabilities of their weapons, while we have under stated ours.
I was wondering what fuel this thing would use.
Just a few weeks ago their one and only carrier caught fire while in dry dock. The same carrier that a couple of years ago had to turn back not even halfway to the Med for a planned cruise.
I doubt they can even put twenty ships to sea at one time. And a Mach 20 missile? Wouldn't that be a quantum leap in material / propulsion / guidance? I mean, stranger things have happened, but again, I'm skeptical.
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