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| Putin tests 'invincible' hypersonic intercontinental missile that can carry 24 nuclear warheads at mach TWENTY making them impossible to intercept |
| 2018-03-31 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 Get hypersonic enough and don't even need a warhead - see Tunguska event. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-03-31 10:15 |
| #8 Unless we do a lot more do harden our electrical infrastructure against EMPs we are quite vulnerable to even a nearly fully successful nuclear defense (or even natural solar 'attack.') |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-03-31 10:15 |
| #7 If you launch them, they will come. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-03-31 10:12 |
| #6 ...Interestingly, all my references show the top speed of our fifty-two year old LGM-30 Minuteman III design as approximately 17,500 MPH, or Mach TWENTY-THREE. So - welcome to 1966, Pooty-poot. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-03-31 08:35 |
| #5 Which is why M.A.D. existed. Yep, you can deliver. We can still respond. And the Chinese will move into |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-31 07:46 |
| #4 Yah. Sure. Fine. (yawn) |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-03-31 07:20 |
| #3 At least they are getting ready for the comet. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-31 02:42 |
| #2 Personally? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-31 01:25 |
| #1 In order to intercept a Sarmat, at least 500 American ABM missiles would be needed, according to Viktor Bondarev,... Heard similar back in the Reagan Years. ABM Treaty and the Soviets actually built theirs, then: (Soviets): Fear Our ABM's, capitalist swine! (Reagan): Fine, we'll put MIRVs on every missile and bury you in five times the warheads! (Russians): ..... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-03-31 00:14 |