Posted on 08/28/2019 9:01:01 PM PDT by bitt
Asleep at the switch? 16 years of Clinton & Obama were no advantage. They did their best to overturn the cold war victory.
Although this is not my area of professional expertise, I’ve “dabbled” in it from time to time over the course of the last couple of years. Most of the authoritative information regarding our capabilities or the lack thereof, as well as detailed threat information, is classified. However, for some pretty detailed, unclassified information on hypersonics (and other topics) here’s a link to a paper from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS):
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R45811.pdf
Hypersonic weapons against which the U.S. has no defense . . . except lasers and particle beam weapons... Whatever will we do?
Top pentagon officials were too busy giving ‘speeches’ to pay attention?
That makes them dangerous. A poor country with an huge military tends to reach out and eat its neighbors; especially since they have that track record of doing exactly that.
Not coming to conquer Europe, but if I were Ukraine, Estonia, or Lithuania I might be a bit concerned.
Because in Russia, excellence is the enemy of good enough.
Because Estonia is going to get attacked with hypersonic missiles... And Pentagon should be very concerned over it. And budget increased six fold.
The current arms race has been completely one-sided.
Primarily China who are a serious threat, and secondarily, Russia, who is more of a nuisance threat.
The dumbass Russians gave the US the excuse (by their years of cheating on the INF) to get out of the INF and modernize and operationalize MRBS, IRBS and cruise missiles, primarily for use in the Indo-Pacific.
But, since Russia wants a ColdWar, we should put some in both Romania, Poland and the Baltics just to make them bitch and spend more $.
Hi.
In the fwiw department, much of that hypersonic arsenal is at the bottom of the sea.
5.56mm
“” “” The dumbass Russians gave the US the excuse (by their years of cheating on the INF) to get out of the INF and modernize and operationalize MRBS, IRBS and cruise missiles, primarily for use in the Indo-Pacific.”” “”
Years of cheating is a good joke considering the fact that Bush de-facto ignored treaty since 2004.
Yep. One big joke.
You are always near when it is time to lick the jackboots of Putin lol.
There is international consensus of Russia, repeatedly, violating the INF Treaty.
A big thank you to Putin for getting us out of that deal.
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