Posted on 09/29/2008 8:05:04 PM PDT by Flavius
Yes...which is FAR slower than a particle beam or maser/laser weapon. Speed helps a missile evade interception, but DEWs remove that advantage except for targeting considerations.
LOL!!! The Russians are doomed!
“It doesn’t even work until MACH 7.”
Some of them work at slower speeds, i.e., Mach 5. The ones they tested many years ago were more in this range.
Mach 15 might be theoretically possible but all of the problems at Mach 5 are even more challenging, especially the heat issue. I can’t imagine anyone spending the money and time required to make it work, and I doubt the Russians and Indians will, either.
"Yes, we're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed."
Good to find a fellow fan. :-)
One of my all-time favourite films.
Nope. Four fried chickens.
does it use an uninnertube?
Just need to explode some chaff in front of it. The kinetic energy will take it out. Also, can’t out run a laser. -
“Bullet speed” is one thing. Reaction time to incoming missile is another. If defense system has only several seconds to detect, calculate, target and fire then ... you can “out run” a laser.
Exactly. It takes a lot, lot, lot of horsepower to go mach 5 and horsepower takes fuel. If I remember correctly, that is the speed of the X15 which had one million HP and could fly for a minute or two.
Me thinks the Ruskies and Indies have hired Bagdhad Bob for their PR releases.
I like our Capitol and reflecting pool better.
Check out the YAL-1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Laser
It can hit things far faster than MACH 5.
Intercontinental missile can not change its course during initial stage of flight that gives you time to target. Anti-ship cruise missile perform “evasive maneuvers near to the target to defeat any defenses” and that makes targeting (and keeping beam on target for several seconds) very difficult.
Read about “Yakhont” - http://www.missilethreat.com/cruise/id.103/cruise_detail.asp
Yeah, but this Mach 5 has buzzsaws and goes underwater an' stuff!
Not sure, but it does have an uninercooler....
You have apparently missed my point.
I think we hit a pretty fast target when we took out that errant satellite. I don’t think their MACH 2.5 measures up to that.
Sorry MACH 5
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