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Pentagon FAILS yet another hypersonic weapons test after an 'anomaly' occurred during flight that was supposed to reach speeds of Mach 5: Russia and China both have successful hypersonic programs
2022-07-01
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Pentagon says a problem occurred following missile ignition

  • China, Russia and North Korea are all pressing ahead with hypersonic programs

  • Trial marked the second unsuccessful test flight of the prototype weapon

  • A booster failure occurred in its first flight test in October, which prevented the missile from leaving the launch pad

  • Hypersonic weapons are capable of flight at speeds five times the speed of sound, and can maneuver mid-flight, which makes tracking them difficult
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Posted by:Skidmark

#7  You say that as if it were a bad thing.

If it's a conventional warhead being launched, yes, DEFCON 1 is a really bad thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-01 18:33  

#6  And put everyone on DEFCON 1 as soon as it launched.

You say that as if it were a bad thing.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-01 14:54  

#5  The glide phase weapons and the scramjets are basically two entirely different classes of weapons. The problem we are having is part of the design requirement for the glide phase boosters is to make them distinguishable from an ICBM. If we just wanted to put a glide phase weapon on a booster, a Trident could do it easily.

And put everyone on DEFCON 1 as soon as it launched.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-01 09:51  

#4  The Russian one is a ballistic missile on its side and the Chinese one is just a glider with minimal control once it is boosted by a ballistic missile. The US is actually trying to build a scramjet missile that can be launched from a fighter/ship and can be controlled during its flight. Much more complex and hard than what the other two nations have done.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-07-01 09:31  

#3  How many airplanes crashed in development? Hypersonics B Hard.
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-01 09:04  

#2  ..."Successful" meaning they are deploying those things and we have confirmed that, or "successful" as in they got a couple to work, but they're a long way from a reliable weapon.

Big difference.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-07-01 08:42  

#1  "Development" is much more lucrative than "production."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-01 08:05  

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