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2019-12-28 Science & Technology

Russia boasts that its intercontinental hypersonic missile that can fly 27 times the speed of sound and carry a nuclear warhead is OPERATIONAL

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-28 06:37|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#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|| 2019-12-28 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Old Russian proverb time here - trust, but verify.

Posted by Raj 2019-12-28 09:35|| 2019-12-28 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't they prove that they can bomb Siberia with it a few months back?

Posted by magpie 2019-12-28 10:31|| 2019-12-28 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Curious that they would announce it at all.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-28 10:36|| 2019-12-28 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 uh huh....can it maneuver and stay intact?

Posted by Frank G 2019-12-28 10:54|| 2019-12-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-28 11:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-28 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Control surfaces are made of unobtainium.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-28 12:06|| 2019-12-28 12:06|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-28 14:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-28 14:51|| Front Page Top

#11 I here they are working alongside Wakanda scientists to produce this modern tech.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-28 22:45|| 2019-12-28 22:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-28 22:49|| Front Page Top

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