(well this thread reminded me of that....so....)
They have been talking about missiles like this for decades now, but we don’t seem to be any closer to a deployable weapon than we were in the 90s.
Ship without a mission meets mission without a ship.
That is one sweet looking fishing trawler (radar signature).
This seems kind of expensive when you could have a sub near by shoot a cruise missile.
How’s China and Russia to know the difference?
“The Conventional Prompt Strike weapons program, which emerged [in] the era of former President George W. Bush, is designed to arm a ballistic missile with a conventional warhead, bringing the range and speed similar to a nuclear weapon to conventional strike.”
How does a jumpy nuclear armed adversary tell the difference?
L8r
Why does the Navy want to replicate the mission of the SSBN’s. I ‘get’ that the “Zummwalts” are probably going to serve-out their lives as test-beds. Maybe they should paint them orange?
Whoa...
“The Navy’s newest destroyer may fire a not-yet-to-be fielded Conventional Prompt Strike conventionally-armed missile...”
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Taking apart this sentence, the qualifier “may” disqualifies everything else that follows. And to add to the fluff factor of the article, the missile “yet to be fielded” means it is not yet out of testing and perhaps doesn’t even exist.
Designing a ship around a weapon that doesn’t exist. I guess the corrupt decision makers didn’t learn anything from the last destroyer fiasco along those lines.
Let’s hope the navy ensures there are no captain Jack Rippers in command.
Some years ago there were supposedly kinetic energy weapons being developed. These would use tungsten rods dropped from orbit or from an ICBM that would hit their target at speeds of 17,000 mph and pack a near nuclear bomb punch. That would seem to be an ideal warhead for these new missiles.
The why bother putting it on a boat?
The Russians already have Hypersonic missiles that travel at 20 times the speed of sound,President Trump mentioned last week we have them in production,whatever that means,so a missle that takes an hour won’t be of much use