Posted on 10/18/2021 5:56:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Biden is stunned pudding comes in a can.
Exactly. However, I bet "U.S. Intelligence" already has a complete set of dossiers on every American parent who has recently complained at a local school board meeting.
舊敗等
Jiu Baideng
Well that’s what they say. And maybe they didn’t know. Who knows. The intel business revolves heavily around not publicly knowing stuff.
The intel business revolves heavily around not knowing stuff.....................
We focused on an unwinnable war in Afghan and Iraq vs jihadis, while China built a blue water Navy bigger than ours and R&D’d their way to a huge lead in hypersonics.
That you Obama/Biden Admin. Trump did a hyper flash of cash into our R&D.
That thing zipping by at 18,000 an hour just got by you guys? And it launched on a Long March 5? Of course that never shows up on infrared.
Honestly, I hope they are lying to us this time. I cannot imagine them being that stupid.
And…like all post WWII societies, they are aging at an alarming rate. Toss onto that the “one child” policy through the past 30 years and they are staring down a huge demographic problem.
One rocket launch is not an ‘attack’
A dozen rocket launches is an attack...................
It works for me.
Impeach 46.
That wasn’t my point. And I wasn’t calling it an attack.
The rocket it was launched on was the thing they use to put satellites into orbit. That rocket launch should draw a lot of attention in the places that pay attention to such things. The fact that the military is saying they did not see that huge flare on their infrared satellites is simply not believable.
They probably did see it, they just didn’t want to report it at the time. And I’m sure Russia and the Euroweenies did as well as Australia and India. There are a lot of eyes out there..................
You don’t need stealth when your doing 21k mph.
The Space Shuttles regularly did ~18k mph and they were easily visible.................
Thank Bill Clinton who gave the Chinks missile and nuclear secrets when he allowed them to recover a failed us missile that did not clear the launch pad and gave Chinese “scientists,” access to White Sands secrets.
Bkmk
lol...which confirms concretely it was a hypersonic.
Well, even if it was then they might say this since it was not hypersonic all the time!
Best takes:
According to the report, two people familiar with the test said the weapon could, in theory, fly over the South Pole. That would pose a big challenge for the US military because its missile defence systems are focused on the northern polar route. -https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/chinas-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-test-7577005/
Now, the Outer Space Treaty prohibits putting nuclear weapons in orbit, so the Soviets named the system “fractional orbital bombardment system” ..One big advantage was that the FOBS could evade U.S. early warning radars, which all looked toward the North Pole, the route that Soviet ICBMs would have taken. The FOBS could let the Soviets take the long way around, flying over the South Pole and hitting the United States from behind where there weren’t any radars...The Soviet Union deployed its R-36O FOBS from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. ..At one point, there were 18 FOBS missiles sitting in Soviet silos ready to attack the United States from the south. The Soviets were aware of the system’s drawbacks, but they only gave it up after the United States abandoned the Safeguard missile defense system it was intended to defeat.
But what is old is new again! The Chinese now appear to have tested a similar system, although with a modern wrinkle. The Times story says the object entered orbit and completed a full circle around the Earth (approximately 40,000 kilometers, or 25,000 miles). That’s orbital bombardment. We already knew China was working on a system like this—there are a couple of academic papers from Chinese defense universities on the FOBS, and U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall blurted it out in public last month.
The new Chinese version is a little more baroque than the Soviet one because the reentry vehicle is a glider. But this really shouldn’t be shocking. Gliding is a totally normal way to reenter the atmosphere. That’s the whole idea behind space planes. China just launched a reusable space plane, much like the U.S. X-37B or the old NASA Space Shuttle. The technologies demonstrated in that launch and in this one are fundamentally similar. You need a big rocket to boost the thing into orbit, an orbiter with retrorockets to slow it down, and stubby wings so it can glide where it’s going.
In fact, the simplest way to think about China’s orbital bombardment system is to imagine a space shuttle, put a nuclear weapon into the cargo bay, and forget about the landing gear. The Chinese have actually denied that they conducted an orbital bombardment test, saying the United States must be confused by their launch of the space plane in July. -https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/18/hypersonic-china-missile-nuclear-fobs/
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