Let’s use it in Portland!
Hmm. Where did we get the technology? Better yet, do we even have it?
Or is this all just bluster in the face of the Chinese already demonstrating it?
Go Raytheon! (I have a little of their stock.)
Didn’t they already develop a ramjet that was pretty quick?
Somebody check the basement storage room for the old SkunkWorks prototype blueprints before we start chasing gremlins with broomsticks.
You can bet the Biden Crime Family has a piece of the Pentagon action.
AND THIS, TOO.
Biden is selling our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Asia…
It’s no secret that Americans are paying record prices at the gas pumps. Rapidly ascending prices also affect the cost of all the goods and services that are an integral part of the American economy. Farmers, manufacturers, delivery companies, repair people…you name it: They’re paying more to do their jobs and they’re passing those costs to consumers. So why now, of all times, is the Biden administration selling off America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (“SPR”) to Asia.
As the name suggests, the SPR is America’s emergency backup supply of oil. The reason we have it is because of the energy crisis in the early 1970s. According to Wikipedia, which is probably accurate about this, “The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973-1974 oil embargo, to mitigate future supply disruptions.”
Fast forward to 2021. Upon entering the Oval Office, one of the first things Biden did was to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline. Henceforth, rather than flowing safely through a pipeline, Canadian oil will come the expensive way, over land, whether in trucks (which are in short supply) or on trains.
At the same time, Biden halted new oil, gas, and coal leases on federal lands, something that’s being fought in the courts. As long as the suit continues, though, no sane business would start to drill.
Biden’s also on the verge of ending all new oil and gas leases around major Native American cultural sites, which will shut down massive amounts of exploration and drilling in New Mexico. And following initial denials, the administration admitted that it plans to close a major Michigan pipeline.
Biden is selling massive amounts of SPR oil…to Asia!
According to Bloomberg/Quint:
About 1.6 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve — a monthly record — was shipped out in October, according to data from market intelligence firm Kpler.
All three supertankers went to Asia.
“Given the ongoing pace of the current SPR release — 12 million barrels in the last two months and the biggest weekly release so far last week at 3.1 million barrels — it’s fair to assume more SPR barrels are going to leave U.S. shores in the weeks ahead,” said Matt Smith, an oil analyst at Kpler.
As far as I can tell, the administration has not explained why, with Americans struggling to keep up with rising fuel prices, it’s shipping our SPR to Asia. During the virtual meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping, the two men allegedly discussed releasing oil from both countries’ petroleum reserves but made no mention of the sales to Asia that already took place.
SOURCE — AMERICAN THINKER
I don’t understand the meaning of “glide phase” as it applies here. By definition any intercept missile must be guided.based on threat sensor information. Glide doesn’t seem to match up with that fact.
What a. I missing?
Well that will make sure it doesn’t cost too much and will be done in a timely manner. /s
Those of us who worked on National Aerospace Plane (X-30) technologies (mach 25) are pissed it took this long.
Boeing has flown hypersonic missiles since the 60’s.
Boeing doesn’t know how to curb their arrogance to win important contracts.
Why not award the contract to China?
My somewhat educated guess is that skin-to-skin intercept is not the optimal countermeasure for a hypersonic weapon in glide phase in atmosphere, because your target could be maneuvering at least somewhat.
You target enemy missiles in their different phases of flight, differently. In boost phase or mid-course in space, skin-to-skin intercept is the method and is quite feasible when the target cannot maneuver. Directed energy against the booster is another option for boost phase, depending on the circumstances.
For hypersonic glide phase in atmosphere, the options seem to be directed energy, or a warhead which dispenses many thousands of BBs in the immediate path of the target vehicle. Use the target’s high speed against it. The relatively massive shrapnel in conventional air-intercept warheads would be sub-optimal for this job because the small hypersonic target could possibly miss the relatively fewer pieces of shrapnel as they disperse.
An expanding cloud of many thousands of tungsten BBs should do it, if delivered to the right spot at the right time.
You mean similar to the Space Shuttle on re-entry?? 17,000 MPH (~mach 23) to 0.
Lets hope we know what potential enemies have too. Our intelligence agencies have to get penetration in the enemy camp.