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Russia boasts that its intercontinental hypersonic missile that can fly 27 times the speed of sound and carry a nuclear warhead is OPERATIONAL
2019-12-28
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  Great. Twenty minutes to Armageddon. Well, we won’t have much time to fret about it.

Grossly destabilizing. By the time you react, you have no choice but to launch a counter strike. Even if you are wrong.

No time for phone calls between countries.
Posted by: KBK   2019-12-28 22:49  

#11  I here they are working alongside Wakanda scientists to produce this modern tech.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-12-28 22:45  

#10  Oh, how cool. Maybe we should think about developing one of those. Why didn't we?

Pershing II.
We have better stuff that are in the process of being weaponized.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Snack5985   2019-12-28 14:51  

#9   We are several years(8?) behind the Russians, Indians and Chinese

"Barack Hussein Obama II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017."
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-12-28 14:47  

#8  Control surfaces are made of unobtainium.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-12-28 12:06  

#7  Oh, how cool. Maybe we should think about developing one of those.

Why didn't we?


We are and are close to deployment. We are several years behind the Russians, Indians and Chinese as we decided to drag our asses on this....
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-12-28 11:41  

#6  One huge heat target incoming. You think you aren't generating heat traveling through the atmosphere? And its not maneuvering, so just put up a wall of crap for it the hit along the way.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-28 11:40  

#5  uh huh....can it maneuver and stay intact?
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-28 10:54  

#4  Curious that they would announce it at all.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-12-28 10:36  

#3  Didn't they prove that they can bomb Siberia with it a few months back?
Posted by: magpie   2019-12-28 10:31  

#2  Old Russian proverb time here - trust, but verify.
Posted by: Raj   2019-12-28 09:35  

#1  Oh, how cool. Maybe we should think about developing one of those.

Why didn't we?
Posted by: gorb   2019-12-28 09:17  

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