China and Russia are 'aggressively pursuing' hypersonic weapons, and the US can't defend...

CNBC ^ | 3/20/2018 | Amanda Macias

[varyouga]

Lasers and other energy weapons would be an effective countermeasure. Missiles are still dinosaur technology in the grand scheme of things.

IMO, such a public admission like this is a bluff to give the enemy false confidence and less will to develop more weapons.

Like scoffing at your hand while holding 2 aces.

[VTenigma]

Good thing the past administration allowed Russia to acess our hypersonic technology, we wouldn’t want to keep that to ourselves. /s

[redcatcherb412]

Good thing the past administration allowed Russia to acess our hypersonic technology, we wouldn’t want to keep that to ourselves. /s

Well, bambi's promised "more flexibility" for Putin had to provide them something. It was a promise you know. /S

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[gandalftb]

China, Russia.........so what?

You are bankrupting yourselves buying weapon systems you can never use.

Any attack on us, Russians and Chinese leadership would be exterminated.

What’s the point?

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

While Russia gets closer and closer to a full-functioned SATAN II (google that) our nuclear missiles still use 8” floppy disks.

Don’t believe me? Believe CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/

[Revolutionary]

I am the father of the modern US hypersonic movement. We had the chance to be much further ahead than we are now (for the usual reasons).

Hypersonic weapons do have the capacity to change warfare as we know it. The Chinese are displaying 20+ year old SWIRV technology. The Russians are boasting about two items: A hypersonic glide reentry vehicle (large down range and cross range capability makes it harder to predict and engage). I don’t think they are at the practical level yet. The other is just what I call a poor man’s hypersonic weapon (all rocket powered). They have focused on nukes. That is not what makes it revolutionary.

By the way: The hypersonic explanation was terrible.
Mach 5 is the threshold for hypersonic. Hypersonic weapons are a real bitch to stop. That is one part of the allure. Conventional versions use kinetic energy as the primary kill mechanism.

[redcatcherb412]

We have a new hyper-sonic missile under development but it looks like we have no effective countermeasure.

I would think the more than a few Boomers off their coasts with up to 192 mach 24 trident II warheads and a 7,000 mile range may keep them worried.

[Will88]

And, of course, Russia and China were working to develop new nuclear delivery systems while the idiot Obama spent eight years pretending he was achieving some sort of mutual disarmament.

[Ozark Tom]

Maybe running UNIX without the BSOD issue?

[Does so]

Funding was pulled.

(I followed an interesting picture of a transparent turret on a C-130).