Posted on 06/13/2020 10:20:45 AM PDT by re_tail20
President Donald Trump revealed new details about a mystery missile during an address at West Point Saturday, appearing to offer new insight into a high-speed weapon he previously called the "super duper missile."
In mid-May, Trump boasted about US military strength from the Oval Office, and in the process, he announced that the US is building a new missile faster than anything currently available.
"We're building incredible military equipment at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We have no choice with the adversaries we have out there," the president said.
"We have — I call it, the 'super duper missile,'" Trump said, explaining that he "heard the other night, 17 times faster than what they have right now, when you take the fastest missile we have right now."
"You've heard Russia has five times and China's working on five or six times. We have one 17 times, and it's just gotten the go-ahead," he said.
The prevailing view of the president's remarks was that the president was referring to some type of hypersonic weapon. The Department of Defense said in a statement shortly after the president's announcement that the Pentagon "is working on developing a range of hypersonic missiles to counter our adversaries."
Hypersonic weapons are able to travel at high speeds and along unpredictable flight paths, making them difficult for traditional air-and-missile defense systems to intercept. The development of these weapons has become a point of competition between the US, Russia, and China.
Speaking to the graduating class of 2020 at the US Military Academy at West Point Saturday, Trump provided new information on the weapon he boasted about last month.
"We are building new ships, bombers, jet fighters, and helicopters by the hundreds. New tanks, military satellites, rockets and missiles, even a hypersonic missile that goes...
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It’s known I’ve seen articles on hypersonic development in engineering and military technology journals. He revealed much less than they have.
Yeah and he was so specific. Take a Xanax
Sounds like a solution for CHAZ
They said the same thing about Reagan - He “blurted” out details of the SDI.
It ended up being the 100 lb straw that broke CCCP’s back.
DJT is NOT DUMB. Witness history.. Look through the situation. He is playing 3D chess and you are thinking it’s a terrible 2D move.
You chill, bubba
It’s a simple suggestion to Our Man Don
He might be feeling a bit underwater at the moment with all the traps the Left is springing
He shouldn’t. LBJ started blowing out details of programs that could have gone decades without leaking just to shore up the ‘64 election. Lucky for me, that was the year I first saw the A-12 when he sent it on a tour of air bases but to keep it under wraps I don’t think my life would have been different.
Hopefully it WAS a calibrated leak designed to intimidate the other side, but it could be just nerves.
The peanut gallery is full of people who think they are smarter than Potus. 1
No to be confused with hyperbole and a half...
So you agree that LBJ did the right thing by exposing the Oxcart program?
“you are thinking it’s a terrible 2D move”
Long before anyone here was on his bandwagon I was writing checks to the guy, precisely because he’s NOT DUMB.
But everyone has their limits. I know the man thrives on conflict, which is one of his greatest assets, but everyone has a limit. Lotta Stuff coming down right now, don’t need our Fearless Leader going wobbly.
Which means WE all have to stand up in a show of support AGAINST the Nuevo Bolsheviks in our streets.
A set are ready aimed at the backsides of the Members PRC communist politburo. It’s called the stinking boom
LBJ was a Democrat, and dumber than a box of hammers.
LBJ was a lot of things, dumb wasn’t one of them. Probably the most effective Senate Majority leader there ever was in terms of getting what he wanted done.
” getting what he wanted done “
By a combination of pushing, shoving, kicking and occasionally murdering anyone in the way
Lyndon Baines Thug...him and his young understudy Jim Wright...
All democrat resume enhancers...
Is anyone dumb enough to believe that the Pentagon and our defense contractors are not just as infested with communists as the State Department?
If you are, dream on... Keep grazing and/or chewing the cud... Life is peachy...
i’ll bet it’s capable of taking out CHAZ in a single bite
Pretty sure there are Plenty of Chi-com agents in the U.S. right now trying to infiltrate defense contractors to upload the blueprints back to China...
The super duper missile aint the only thing we got.
Area 51 has some real nice little toys that defies logic.
They just deny that they have anything. Its just a test site for conventional things you see...
YA RIGHT! And the craft”s” that flew over Phoenix didnt follow the “flight path” from area 51 either.
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