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Russia stole hypersonic weapons from the US
2025-01-25
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of geranium_chronicles

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Trump is talking nonsense about hypersonic weapons.

- The Russians have hypersonic weapons, we don't.

- Because under Obama they stole... Russia stole the designs...

- From us?

- From us. One very bad person (Editor's note: a radish)
Radish? What does that mean in this context?
Forget it, TW. It's Russia. Who knows what it means other than calling an individual a radish is a bad thing?
gave them the designs. And they were ours! I gave the order to create hypersonic weapons and now we are even creating turbo-hypersonic weapons, which are even more advanced. And soon we will have them.

True, Russia has already created it and has it. Because they stole it during the Obama administration. Not under Biden, but specifically under Obama. Under Biden, they most likely stole various things as well, but we will find out about that. And so... having stolen our hypersonic technology, they created hypersonic missiles!

That is why the US has still not been able to put hypersonic missiles into service. Because they stole all the designs. The Russians stole them. That is why it has taken so long.

Because of Petrov and Boshirov.

In fact, Russian scientists simply creatively improved on the Soviet backlog of developments and were able to bring Russia to first place in the world in hypersonics, and we have long been talking not about prototypes, but about fully tested and put into service hypersonic systems. Unlike the United States, which is still stuck at the testing stage.

Petrov and Boshirov is a reference to the two Russian nationals, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom Russians say were wrongly accused in the Skripal poisoning.
It must be understood that China also stole the designs. And Iran. And the DPRK. And the Houthis.

Posted by:badanov

#6  I do adore you all! A classic Rantburg thread.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-25 23:16  

#5  Radish? What does that mean in this context?
Horse radish. The root is vaguely penis-shaped. A polite way of calling someone a dick.

As for "hypersonic", can we nominate that for Annoying Buzzword Du Jour? Along with "kamikazi". Enough!
Posted by: SteveS   2025-01-25 21:01  

#4  Or, A Gram of Greenery?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452   2025-01-25 20:07  

#3  Kaddish for a Radish, or, Through the Cooking Class

"Putin's new hypersonics!"
"Don't shoot!"

"Like a coconut, only a root,"
Says Obama, who'd know,
"Was my spook, long ago,
That took all the old Communist loot!"

[flashback: *click* *whirrrr*
Barack contemplates Ronnie's secret map.]
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452   2025-01-25 20:05  

#2  A lot of the treasonous scam that handed over to the Russians how to do hypersonic weapons happened in the tail end of the Clinton administration. There’s been a 25 year conspiracy of silence about that. I don’t know if Obama had a venture in this area but he had others. ( Hence the 2014 in Fauci’s pardon).
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2025-01-25 18:11  

#1  

It isn't a true hypersonic. It is a ballistic missile fired horizontally. The forming definition is the missile is hypersonic when it hits and can maneuver. The Russian ones cannot do either.
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-01-25 11:44  

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