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Russia builds 'unstoppable' 4,600mph missile that could destroy Royal Navy's new carriers
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| Mar 25, 2017
| SEAN RAYMENT
Posted on 03/26/2017 6:53:13 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
There is a line in a James Bond movie where the villains says something like “ 007 what you doing here? I don’t care about your pathetic little island.” I don’t the Russians are focusing on the royal Navy.
To: Jim Robinson
Just use your Super ZOT Laser Ray 2400 traveling at the speed of light and satellite guided. Can track, fire and ZOT 2400 missiles per second from a network of 100 secret sun-powered satellites or optionally from our fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. Oops, was I not supposed to let that out?Loose lips sink ships.
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posted on
03/27/2017 6:13:27 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
To: central_va
“... there will never be another nuclear war if both sides have them.”
Excepting Li’l Kimmy NOKO and the Mad Mullahs ...
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posted on
03/27/2017 6:20:47 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I have never been one to pooh-pooh Russian aerospace, but given the dismal results in US efforts on hypersonics I have to take this with a VERY large grain of salt.
It may be proposed, may be in development, but I would lay odds against operational capability.
To: Cossak
yes, but they are ramjet...capable of approx mach 2.8. they are not scram jet hypersonic mach 7. Everyone is working on scramjet technology. The US has currently been test flying the X test models.
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posted on
03/27/2017 7:15:36 AM PDT
by
davidb56
To: central_va
It would be virtually impossible to guide something going that fast. Even a slight change in direction would make it unstable
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posted on
03/27/2017 7:18:47 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
To: FreeInWV
China considers the Philippines to be in its territorial waters.
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posted on
03/27/2017 7:20:37 AM PDT
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AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
To: AppyPappy
One missile hit equipped with what is probably a smallish conventional warhead, is not gong to sink a 100,000 ton warship. Will it cause millions of dollars of damage? Yes it will. Will it cause the ship to be nonoperational? Yes for a while.
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posted on
03/27/2017 7:23:26 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
03/27/2017 7:25:26 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
To: central_va
You would have to shoot it like an unguided torpedo. You could make fractional adjustments but even with a computer, Mach 7 is too fast for terminal adjustments.
You blow up an AA warhead in front of it and it is running into a cloud of shrapnel at about Mach 10. It will be ripped to shreds. The concussion could also send it out of control.
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posted on
03/27/2017 7:34:01 AM PDT
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AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
To: sukhoi-30mki
4600 mph is about the velocity of a Rail Gun.
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posted on
03/27/2017 11:41:51 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
To: BuffaloJack
The skin on that missile would be extremely hot and give off a huge infrared signature.
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posted on
03/27/2017 11:43:39 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
>> The skin on that missile would be extremely hot and give off a huge infrared signature. <<
Yes, it would. Frictional heating.
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posted on
03/27/2017 12:11:19 PM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
To: mrsmith
That missile closes at over 200 yards in less than 1/10th second. It would smash into the ship and probably detonate.
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posted on
03/28/2017 10:15:10 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
To: CodeToad
It’s still in the ballpark for pre-detonating the warhead before contact.
Though I was thinking the missile would count on kinetic damage and not a warhead. I was just thinking of nudging an airfoil-shape, which would cause a drastic change in it’s trajectory.
But I see similar ones in use now do have significant warheads.
Of course ‘in the ballpark’ is just a starting point!
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posted on
03/28/2017 12:17:23 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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