Posted on 12/04/2020 10:52:05 AM PST by Onthebrink
Last month the head of the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs, Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe said that the U.S. Navy is on track to field a hypersonic missile on its submarine fleet by 2025. The weapons, which will be used as a conventional prompt strike (CPS) alternative to long-range nuclear weapons has been called a high priority for the Navy.
Wolfe who spoke at the Naval Submarine League annual symposium last month, as reported by USNI News, said that challenges remain. To meet the goal, the U.S. military along with government agencies and private industry, must “take all the successes we’ve had in the research and development of flight testing, and how do we start to productionize that, and how do we transition that into a military capability that we can give to the Army – because we’re kind of doing this collaboratively with the Army – for what they want to do for their first all-up round capability in about the 2023 timeframe, and then how do we continue to push that forward so that we get to a Navy capability on SSGN in the 2025 timeframe?”
(Excerpt) Read more at 19fortyfive.com ...
Good luck with that if the Dems take over the Senate!!!
If we become a revolutionary socialist dictatorship, it would be better that we never get them.
If we become a revolutionary socialist dictatorship, it would be better that we never get them.
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Exactly! We get to cheer as our military gets new weapons that could be used against patriots.
Hugh Hewitt should be real happy about this though. The guy bubbles over everytime he hears about some new, shiny piece of military hardware we’ve developed.
What is all this military might defending us from? The Chinese? What are we afraid they will do to us - invade the US and rig our elections?
Im only slightly joking. Congress, led by GOP,spends trillions on “defense” - but shows no interest in defending the integrity of our elections here at home
“Im only slightly joking. Congress, led by GOP,spends trillions on “defense” - but shows no interest in defending the integrity of our elections here at home”
No argument from me. And even with what we spend on the military...how often do we field new weapons...especially compared to Russia/China who spend far less? Where the hell is that money REALLY going?
They could have had something better, fielded already, if not for political cowards.
The Chinese took over our manufacturing not by military conquest but because our political and business elites shipped our factories there
What are our missiles protecting us from? Are the Chinese going to destroy our country so we can’t pay interest on the trillions of dollars in bonds they have bought from us? That would be pretty stupid of them.
Are the Chinese going to invade and rule us? Yikes maybe they would order the closure of all our small businesses that don’t have trading ties with China? Ok, but Covid shutdowns are already doing that
Could it be that a big portion of our defense budget is the equivalent of govt ditch-digging programs - keeping people employed and contractors humming, simply for the sake ofpreventing unemployment and economic recession?
Which means China will have them in 2026 thanks to “Chinese Americans” working on the technology.
Does it only attack stationary targets, with known coordinates, or does is work against warships, and other moving targets?
Could it be that a big portion of our defense budget is the equivalent of govt ditch-digging programs - keeping people employed and contractors humming, simply for the sake ofpreventing unemployment and economic recession?
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Yup....It’s “make work” for a whole host of special interest groups related to the military-industrial-complex.
Russia and China can produce massive amounts of missiles at a fraction of the cost of our bloated military expenditures.
Our military has a bloated payroll and will protect that payroll “tooth and nail.”
Our nation seems to have a military leadership more concerned about racism, sexism, climate change, the Trump Presidency and holding obscure outposts in Afghanistan. Then preparing for a conflict with nations that have an “industrial pulse.”
15-25 years from now, when we’re at war with China and Russia, we’ll know what these self serving experts were up to.
My suspicion is these guys have more computer models, than a global climate change expert.
Game changer.
It is.
The Russians may already have these deployed so we better catch up.
Nuclear warheads? I bet the Russians have them!
IF we wanted to,,, we could out produce China and Russia.
Unfortunately you are correct. We have a military industrial complex that rewards inefficiency in order to pay off politicians and crony capitalism. Eisenhower was right.
Selfless patriots working in national interest are only available in the US in a crisis. Hopefully they show up in the next one.
Here is another question...
The Russian TU-22M Backfire, with it’s newly re-attached refueling nozzle (thank you Obama, New Start compromise), WITH the new Kinshal hypersonic missile, is well into intercontinental heavy bomber range category.
Are we going to renew New Start with Slo-Jo and the Hoe with that disaster incorporated, along with tactical nuke restriction absence and Russian superiority, and new Russian terror weapons like Kanyon 200 megaton Colbolt superthermonuke torpedo, witch is not included?
That is what I was worried about.
That link is to the russian version of the US Sprint ABM missile we fielded in the 1970s. Mach 10 in like under five seconds and glowing white hot.
The newer versions of tactical and strategic weapons are the new revolution we need to catch up on.
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