"You guys are gonna make a bundle from that deal I made with China."
Posted on 11/21/2021 9:07:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
According to U.S. Space Operations Vice Chief David Thompson, U.S. hypersonic weapons are currently “not as advanced” as those of China and Russia but that it is an area the navy and the air force is “working on.”
At the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada on Nov. 20, Thompson acknowledged that Russia and China being ahead of the United States in hypersonic missile development complicates the “principle of strategic warning” because it makes it difficult to pinpoint the target of the missile and activate warning systems.
“Combine that with a fractional orbital bombardment system, [the missile] can go around the world then hit you,” said Thompson. “Even if you can track that maneuvering weapon … you still don’t know the target until the last minute because it maneuvers all the way.”
Regarding why the United States is lagging behind in hypersonic weapon development, Thompson listed a multitude of reasons, including the “bureaucracy” built into the defense system; the fact that the the United States has not had a “strategic competitor” in decades that has driven us to move “quickly;” and our development of an “extreme risk-adverse posture” when developing defense technologies due to cost.
He said that the United States needs to be in a position to “accept a little more risk of failure so that we can speed up our processes,” and “adopt a different approach to acquiring, fielding and operating systems” to accelerate cycle times.
In a Oct. 17 report by the Financial Times, the Chinese military was described as having “launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle which flew through low-orbit space before cruising down towards its target” in August this year.
The U.S. Navy and Army had reported successful testing of hypersonic weapon component prototypes on Oct. 20.
According to the Pentagon, the three successful tests “demonstrated advanced hypersonic technologies, capabilities, and prototype systems in a realistic operating environment.”
These remarks followed two failed tests of the Air Force’s air-launched hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, the key component required to develop a hypersonic weapon.
“Experiments and tests both successful and unsuccessful are the backbone of developing highly complex critical technologies at tremendous speed, as the department is doing with hypersonic technologies,” a Pentagon Spokesman told Defense News in a statement.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Sep. 23 that “the service has not laid out in enough detail which missions will call for the use of hypersonic weapons, how to fit them into operations and whether the technologies in development will allow the service to accomplish its goals” according to statements obtained by the outlet.
“The target set that we would want to address, and why hypersonics are the most cost effective weapons for the U.S., I think it’s still to me somewhat of a question mark,” Kendall told reporters at the Air, Space and Cyber conference. “I haven’t seen all the analysis that’s been done to justify the current program.”
$750 billion a year doesn’t buy what it used to.
Too much money spent fixing heterosexual norms.
Ahead? Subjective... As far as technology advancement? Hard to say. Racing towards deployment of a marginally effective system? Sure, maybe we’re a little behind the curve. But I’d hazard a guess the tech we’re bringing to the fight is better. Hopefully we get there in time. Well, truly, hopefully we don’t need it but...
Not to worry. General Milley trusts the Chi-coms to let him know ahead of time if they plan to launch one of their hypersonic missiles. Oh, wait...!
They didn’t invade and occupy half a dozen nations and incur $5 Trillion in debt doing so.
RE: They didn’t invade and occupy half a dozen nations
So, invading Crimea does not count?
The US will only fund Homo Missiles, so that will cut costs dramatically, but raise intercept times because they can only attack from the rear.
The conclusion then was that hypersonic weapons delivery had no clear advantage over ICBMs or cruise missiles.
Frankly, today, a stealth drone could probably deliver a nuclear weapon any place on Earth without setting off a missile alert, and at a fraction of the cost for a hypersonic missile.
Now this hypersonic. That means really really fast, right?
Meh, they had Crimea and a navy base at Sevastopol before George Washington was President. So there’s that.
BTW, extra credit question; In the 1854 Crimean war (Florence Nightingale, Charge of the Light Brigade, Errol Flynn, all that) Who were the Brits trying to oust from Crimea?
Drop mic...
yabbut, we are way ahead in including homosexuals, gender-confused, and crossdressers, along with safe space creation.
tech made in china. Complete with backdoors.
From 879-1240 AD, Kiev (not Moscow) was the Capitol of pretty much the entire region (Kievan Rus) from roughly modern Norway to the Black Sea, until the Mongols ravaged the region, and caused the breakup of the Kievan Rus.
After Rurik (or Riurik), the Ruriked Dynasty (ruling from Kiev) lasted roughly from 879-1598, until the first Tsar of Russia - Ivan the Terrible (Ivan the IV).
“So there is that”.
Of course many Russians claim this as their history, while it is truly shared with Ukraine.
Did Hunter Biden’s China-connected billion dollar CCP company BHR assist China in it’s hypersonic steal? We know this:
<><> in 2016 BHR invested in CATL, a CCP Chinese company now the world’s biggest maker of batteries for electric vehicles.
<><>BHR’s earlier deal helped finance an Australian coal-mining company controlled by a state-owned CCP firm.
<><> Hunter also assisted a subsidiary of a CCP Chinese defense conglomerate in buying a Michigan auto parts maker.
Nor was Joe Biden oblivious to all of this.
<><>As a US Senator he frequently met with CCP minister in DC.
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<><>As VP Joe Biden sucked up to Xi........China gave tens of millions to Joe’s “non profits.”
Biden is selling our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Asia…
It’s no secret that Americans are paying record prices at the gas pumps. Rapidly ascending prices also affect the cost of all the goods and services that are an integral part of the American economy. Farmers, manufacturers, delivery companies, repair people…you name it: They’re paying more to do their jobs and they’re passing those costs to consumers. So why now, of all times, is the Biden administration selling off America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (“SPR”) to Asia.
As the name suggests, the SPR is America’s emergency backup supply of oil. The reason we have it is because of the energy crisis in the early 1970s. According to Wikipedia, which is probably accurate about this, “The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973-1974 oil embargo, to mitigate future supply disruptions.”
Fast forward to 2021. Upon entering the Oval Office, one of the first things Biden did was to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline. Henceforth, rather than flowing safely through a pipeline, Canadian oil will come the expensive way, over land, whether in trucks (which are in short supply) or on trains.
At the same time, Biden halted new oil, gas, and coal leases on federal lands, something that’s being fought in the courts. As long as the suit continues, though, no sane business would start to drill.
Biden’s also on the verge of ending all new oil and gas leases around major Native American cultural sites, which will shut down massive amounts of exploration and drilling in New Mexico. And following initial denials, the administration admitted that it plans to close a major Michigan pipeline.
Biden is selling massive amounts of SPR oil…to Asia!
According to Bloomberg/Quint:
About 1.6 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve — a monthly record — was shipped out in October, according to data from market intelligence firm Kpler.
All three supertankers went to Asia.
“Given the ongoing pace of the current SPR release — 12 million barrels in the last two months and the biggest weekly release so far last week at 3.1 million barrels — it’s fair to assume more SPR barrels are going to leave U.S. shores in the weeks ahead,” said Matt Smith, an oil analyst at Kpler.
As far as I can tell, the administration has not explained why, with Americans struggling to keep up with rising fuel prices, it’s shipping our SPR to Asia. During the virtual meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping, the two men allegedly discussed releasing oil from both countries’ petroleum reserves but made no mention of the sales to Asia that already took place.
SOURCE — AMERICAN THINKER
"You guys are gonna make a bundle from that deal I made with China."
Hunter Biden is competing in Beijing........in the Who Got The Richest from China Deals? competition.
His team-mates include his father, Joe Biden, Joe’s two brothers, John Kerry and his son, Nancy Pelosi and her former aide who lobbies for China, and Obama.
Hunter has the edge b/c he left a huge paper trail.
The point is, it has been a Russian Navy base, continually, for 238 years. And no cute end-run neocon move of funding and launching a coup in Kiev was -ever- going to get them to vacate it for NATO to take over the base.
It was retarded of DC to ever think that was in the cards.
“But I’d hazard a guess the tech we’re bringing to the fight is better.”
The Clintons and Obama gave away our most advanced hypersonic, laser, electronic, propulsion, cyber, etc... weapons technology through the Skolkovo project.
Freepers were once really tracked this treasonous damage.
See —
https://www.independentsentinel.com/hillary-transferred-technology-putins-new-unstoppable-missile/
https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3507/Ka-Boom-Putin-Barack-and-Hillarys-Skolkovo.aspx
The DOD, US Army, FBI, and a number of Congress and Senate members warned, or were in shock of what happened, but did nothing to stop the intentional proliferation to Russia of US weapons and cyber system technology, (Russia since 2010 also having its strongest ties to any Chinese leader since backing Mao in 1922).
It made U-1 (which also involved $5.5 Billion dollars in *Iraqi Tuwaitha “yellow cake” repatriation or acquisition back to Russia from Canada), where we had shipped it between 2004 to late 2008.
Skolkovo (on the outskirts of Northeast Moscow), was also wired by the some of the most advanced and dedicated fiber backbone in the world (partially and carefully funded by Soros shell companies through Eastern EU) which carefully weave through multiple countries to Frankfurt (and then on to all major financial centers of the EU, and including NATO), through Wiesbaden, and interestingly include Southwest HQ’d Paragon Technologie GmbH
Systemprogrammierung (the Russian owner of SCYTL)
Leo-Wohleb-Straße 8
79098 Freiburg/Germany
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https://www.paragon-software.com/contact.html
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