Posted on 07/18/2020 8:56:34 AM PDT by bitt
The US defence officials revealed that they tested a hypersonic missile that President Donald Trump has long touted as a ‘super-duper’ new military weapon.
The United States defence officials reportedly revealed that they tested a hypersonic missile that President Donald Trump has long touted as a ‘super-duper’ new military weapon. According to an international media outlet, a senior defence official called the testing a ‘success’ and added that the missile flew 17 times faster than the speed of sound. The official also informed that test was initially tested back in March over the Pacific Ocean, however, very little additional information was revealed.
According to reports, the US President has taken a special interest in the missile and he even oft-cited the test that the Pentagon had described being as ‘successful’. While Donald Trump has repeatedly made comments about a supersonic missile that is faster than any other missile, the defence official reportedly said that missiles being developed by the United States will not be nuclear-capable. Even with the fastest missile, it was also noted that the American effort still lags behind those of Moscow and Beijing’s already fielded weapons systems.
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As per reports, the hypersonic missiles are traditionally defined as missiles that travel at least five times the speed of sound, which is more than 3,800 miles per hour. Given the tremendous speed and ability to manoeuvre in the atmospheres, the hypersonic missiles are also seen as particularly hard to defend against using conventional missile defence systems. While speaking to the media outlet, the official said that trying to defend against a hypersonic vehicle becomes very difficult to deal with as high speed and uncertainty in-flight trajectory are combined together.
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17 times the speed of sound. Does that mean if I go around the world that fast, it will take the grating sound of my mother-in-laws voice 17 days to finally reach me? This could be a boon for my marriage.
Coincidentally 17, eh? Signaling much?
Obama set us back 8 years at least.
I wonder what would happen if you could time a cloud of bomblets to explode just in front or right at a point a hypersonic missile passes through (delivered by a hypersonic anti-missile.)
“the American effort still lags behind those of Moscow and Beijing’s already fielded weapons systems”
Except ours will actually work.
13,000 MPH.
I read somewhere yesterday that Russia has the GDP of New York State?
Yea.....i’m worried..
Thanks free traitors. Add this to the price of those cheaper Chinese made pens you saved $.10 on.
“Except ours will actually work.”
yep
“17 times faster than the speed of sound” would be 18x the speed of sound - which depends on atmospheric density. Very poor choice of words in that headline. Sympathies to those with mothers in law with grating voices.
Nearly every ballistic missile with a range over 250 miles is “hypersonic”. The V2 was just barely under Hypersonic (in 1944). With a ballistic missile, the longer the range, the faster it is going.
Hypersonic only means something new if its airbreathing (and isn’t just being lobbed into the vacuum of space).
If its ballistic, yawn.
How do they deal with the heat, and do they have control surfaces?
LOL! Now come on...never let facts get in the way of a good story!
doubt it
wives turn into their moms
thats why you always peg it on what their mom is like, good chance that’s what you’ll end up with
True. But one of the worst things I can do is tell my wife she’s acting like her mother. That just sets her off!
Hear, Hear! I’m starting to wonder if they’re Russian or Chinese bots!
Any anti-Trump lie from the left is propelled much faster by MSNBCCNN.
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