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2022-07-01 Science & Technology

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

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-01 04:06|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "Development" is much more lucrative than "production."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-01 08:05|| 2022-07-01 08:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-07-01 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 How many airplanes crashed in development? Hypersonics B Hard.

Posted by magpie 2022-07-01 09:04|| 2022-07-01 09:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-07-01 09:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-07-01 09:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-07-01 14:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-07-01 18:33|| Front Page Top

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