Not to worry. Our growing reserves of transgenders will strike abject fear into the heart of any enemy.
Just wait until this one hops on the broom and flies Kamikaze into an Iranian warship. That'll teach 'em!
Posted on 01/02/2024 7:34:03 PM PST by Mariner
The US-supplied Patriot air defence system shot down a ‘record’ ten hypersonic missiles fired at Ukraine from Russia on Tuesday morning.
Kinzhal hypersonic missiles are part of an arsenal of weapons Vladimir Putin claimed were indestructible because of the speed at which they travel.
Kyiv earlier said that Russia fired 99 missiles of different types at Ukraine in its large-scale attack on Tuesday morning, and that its air force shot down 72 of them.
“Today, the Ukrainian air force downed 10 out of 10 Russian ‘Kinzhal’... aeroballistic missiles with the help of the Patriot AD system,” the Ukrainian army’s commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny said on social media.
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They appear to be the best anti-missile systems out there.
But it begs the question: Who will run out of missiles first?
Russia is producing 10 Kinzhals per month, minimum. Another dozen + of the Iskander. And those are just the Patriot targets.
Each Patriot system costs $2.5-3.0 Billion. Each missile costs $6 - $13 million, depending on model.
Quick, someone tell Congress that their concerns about hypersonic missile defence are unfounded.
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Can’t be true
John Conyers told us back in the ‘80s that you can’t hit a bullet with a bullet
At hypersonic speeds you can’t maneuver, so your trajectory is easy to predict. Who’da thunk it?
Vlad, you keep using that word.
I don't think it means what you think it means.
(cuz otherwise they wouldn't getting whacked)
I enjoy watching Israel’s Iron Dome in action. When a rocket’s trajectory will take it into the desert, with no people around, Iron Dome does not fire and waste a rocket.
Iron Beam - there are stories that Israel is deploying their Iron Beam technology. Directed energy lasers to defeat incoming rockets. Whether or not Iron Beam is functioning today, it will be eventually.
They said that missile defense would never be possible. Ronaldus Magnus knew that eventually we could “hit a bullet with a bullet.” They said that laser weapons were also science fiction.
Like a plane with single prop vs a plane with dual props: Terminal loss of speed or lift means dual props get you to the crash site faster.
Yup. Just strew a cloud of half-inch tungsten balls in its' way. Kinetic kill.
Actually they can be very hard to kill. But Russia has crappy ones.
“Actually they can be very hard to kill. But Russia has crappy ones.”
So far. But this gives them (and probably the Chinese) a chance to test up grades and counter measures.
Actually, the patriot missile interceptor costs more like 4-5 million bucks but 72 missiles was a very expensive day - over 300 million dollars of very difficult to replace Patriots that should be used for the defense of America were just squandered by Ukraine for no good reason and no gain what so ever.
We are depleting our armories in this shit hole and the Chinese are laughing their asses off.
It's really more about sensor suites and guidance systems.
If I were the Russians I would be sending the cheapest, most stripped down and easy to shoot down version of the missiles I could make to deplete the Patriot batteries and then come back with the real deal for the win.
Maybe they are getting us to deplete our Patriots for when they launch nukes.
“If anything happens to get in its way, like a piece of metal, as it’s moving at hypersonic speeds, I’d expect it would be bad for its health and possibly reduce its chance of finding its target.”
Chinese anti-satellite systems put a cloud of ball bearings in front of a satellite, I wonder if the same technology could be deployed for incoming hypersonics?
Feared by whom?
It’s a telegraph article and Ukraine has to show success for its quarterly fundraiser….
So I’ll wait for confirmation.
Everything the Russians produce is crap. That’s what happens when alcoholism is rampant in your society and your military. Add in corruption at every level and you end up with garbage equipment.
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