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2004-02-21

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Posted by Dar 2004-02-21 2:07:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oops--Hat tip: Drudge

Posted by Dar 2004-2-21 2:07:51 PM|| 2004-2-21 2:07:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 if its Russian then its either all hype or just a prototype that will never progress further, I'm all for military competition but Russias just to skint.The whole China vs USA should make exciting viewing over the coming decades

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-21 2:22:12 PM|| 2004-2-21 2:22:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 It moves so fast you can't even see it!

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-21 3:06:25 PM|| 2004-2-21 3:06:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Um...a couple of points here. If its orbital then its moving much faster than hypersonic speeds. Secondly, one of our biggest fears back during the Cold War was Fractional Orbital Bombardment, this was a maneveur designed to keep the missiles on a short time limit from boost phase to target point with very little intercept time. Combine that with MIRV warheads and decoys and the result was that you usually had too few defensive missiles (unless they were topped with nukes themselves) to intercept even a single salvo of say 5-10 missiles. Anyways the main point I want to make here is that this technology and tactics were designed back in the 1960s. But if the Russkies still want to yak off about missiles and hypersonics, I say we go back to refurbishing Projects Triton and Pluto (look em up on google). Those would be real "crap your pants" systems. Hehe

Posted by Valentine 2004-2-21 3:52:17 PM|| 2004-2-21 3:52:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Um, MARVs? The Russkies are just getting around to building those, eh?

Posted by 11A5S 2004-2-21 3:52:56 PM|| 2004-2-21 3:52:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 America needs to pump more money and brains into the ABL or even SBL (airborne or space based lasers), see how the Russkies can beat speed of light warfare, hell through in some kinda microwave beam firing weapon and its right back to square one again

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-21 3:58:13 PM|| 2004-2-21 3:58:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought the idea behind FOBs was to limit the track to target time or to mislead about missle tests. That being said I'm not too worried about a post Soviet FOBs system since there is evidently a problem with their SRBs..

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-21 4:00:16 PM|| 2004-2-21 4:00:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Personally I'm gonna wait for some verification of this test from a more reliable source. The closest thing I know of to a hypersonic platform the Russians have might be the joint Brahmos project with India or the Burlak rocket which is similar to our Pegasus system.

Oh and I just read an article on MSNBC on the same subject, I'll post it up for tomorrow's subject, anyway it looks like I and 11A5S were right. This isn't a new hypersonic missile, but merely MARV capable of FOB or similar type orbits. Oooh I'm scared now..anyone got some popcorn?

Posted by Valentine 2004-2-21 11:07:28 PM|| 2004-2-21 11:07:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Bravo Jon Shep UK "America needs to pump more money into..." As usual you Euros get a free ride under our defense budget while your populace enjoys a national health insurance that we can't/won't afford because all our $$ are going to Halliburton, General Dynamics and Martin Marietta---parasites!

Posted by NotMike Moore 2004-2-21 11:23:56 PM|| 2004-2-21 11:23:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 yeah i'm gonna worry more about that than just a reg nuke

Posted by smokeysinse 2004-2-21 11:27:27 PM|| 2004-2-21 11:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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