Posted on 05/09/2024 8:36:20 AM PDT by McGruff
A Senate Armed Services hearing turned heated this week when Sen. Angus King, chairman of the Strategic Forces subcommittee, laid into John Hill, deputy assistant defense secretary for space and missile defense, about why the Biden administration’s 2025 missile defense budget request falls far short on funding to maintain readiness against the growing threat of hypersonic missiles from adversaries — namely Russia.
“We have no defense for hypersonic missiles, yes or no? Mr. Hill? Any defense on hypersonic missile?” Mr. King asked during one exchange. If Russia launches a hypersonic missile traveling 6,000 mph and “you are the commander of an aircraft carrier in the Greenland gap … what do you do?” he asked.
Mr. Hill responded: “We have some systems in the terminal stage, but we need more. You are correct … our hypersonic defenses are inadequate. SM-67 is in the Navy’s terminal range Patriot … No argument, we need to focus on hypersonic defenses.”
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What you are suggesting is an AN/SPY radar and AEGIS cannot track hyper-missiles and therefore cannot plot an intercept course of a SM-6 missile with that hyper-missile.
Is that correct?
Speed is the problem from many aspects is all I’m going to say.
Speed is irrelevant. It you can track a missile and project where it will be in it’s flight path you can send a missile to intercept it. An SM-6 missile has successfully intercepted ballistic missiles in tests.
BS!!! You don’t understand hypersonics. If the target missile is going much faster than the interceptor you will not be able to maintain a track on it. The Russians have also vastly changed their SLBMs/ICBMs by integrating with Avangard hypersonic sleds which makes them Mach 20-27 cruise missiles which change the axis and methods of attack. BTW an SM-6 is useless against low flying hypersonic cruise missiles. I know what AEGIS limitations are and it needs to be modernized.
"On May 6, 2023, the claims of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense about the destruction of a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile started circulating on social media. On May 10, Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s Press Secretary, confirmed it during a briefing with the press about a new security assistance package to reaffirm steadfast U.S. support for Ukraine, which also includes air defense systems and anti-air munitions."
Propaganda
This is the Biden Administration and this damage control for their failures!! If you are pro Biden you are not a patriot.
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