Posted on 10/17/2021 5:56:00 PM PDT by blam
No, he wouldn’t. As American cities were burning he’d be on the phone to make sure his ChiCom payola was in a Swiss Bank account.
I’d guess the denial is correct — if they’d tried this, the first attempt would have taken out a Chinese elementary school or a fishing boat in the southern Pacific.
Translation:
China place an aerodynamic reentry vehicle atop a liquid fueled heavy rocket and launched it into low earth orbit. After a single orbit it entered the atmosphere and landed within two miles of the intended target.
Just like our first satellite launch in 1959.
But the characterizations used by the “intelligence officials” will be helpful in obtaining additional funding for the REAL American hypersonics program.
SCRAM jet powered tactical weapons.
“But is this a way they can take out our carriers?”
Same concept, but the glide vehicle missed target by two miles.
Sure you do. Ask Bill CLinton.
“We are not at all interested in having an arms race with other countries."
This is true. They want to dominate the world in terms of weaponry. They have no desire to be in any sort of 'race.'
“Beijing has no interest in global domination.”
They lie...again...no surprise.
> What they have is a fast re-entry vehicle...
Yes, but our own generals have testified that many of our systems cannot protect against this type of nuclear tipped weapon.
I am concerned.
Our own people say, “We don’t know how they did that.”
That tells me we probably don’t have an equivalent, today.
Article says two DOZEN miles. Given that this sort of vehicle isn’t going to move much throw weight, that’s a pretty big miss even with a nuke.
That’s true.
I should have typed ‘some type of heat shield’.
Just like our first satellite launch in 1959.
Well, our first satellite launch in 1957 did the same, expect for the orbit part and the 2 miles part.
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