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2019-09-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian nuclear missile with ‘unlimited' range to be ready by 2025

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Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-11 13:34|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 In fact they did test one. But because it had unlimited range it just kept going...

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-11 13:55|| 2019-09-11 13:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks, TW.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-11 14:51|| 2019-09-11 14:51|| Front Page Top

#3 We already know it is deadly to fish and nuclear scientists.

Posted by Vinegar Protector of the Slytherins7734 2019-09-11 15:26|| 2019-09-11 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Alpha Centauri, here we come!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-11 15:41|| 2019-09-11 15:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Perpetual motion perfected...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-11 16:08|| 2019-09-11 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Lifespan of the fuselage do to air friction heating at hypersonic speeds? Silly idea, like a Gerald Bull Surface-to-Orbit Cannon, doable but kinda pointless.

Posted by magpie 2019-09-11 16:10|| 2019-09-11 16:10|| Front Page Top

#7 What is the point of an unlimited range? If you put it into orbit and have it waiting it effectively has an unlimited range and the Russians could do that already. Having the thing zooming around inside the atmosphere would be daft and just waiting for something, anything (lightning, a bird, a plane) to bring it down by accident.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-11 16:28|| 2019-09-11 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 the idea of a nuclear powered rocket carrying nuclear weapons flying around the globe at low levels is so stupid it makes me think the US has a science advisor comedian agent advising Putin

Posted by lord garth 2019-09-11 18:09|| 2019-09-11 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Nuclear-powered missiles cruising around sounds... fanciful. A nuclear-powered torpedo, now that's something else. Think of it as a little autonomous, single-use boomer happily cruising and lurking, cruising and lurking, just waiting for its day.

Posted by SteveS 2019-09-11 18:43|| 2019-09-11 18:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Intelligence experts? How ironic on 9/11.

“Russia is committed to a massive investment in new systems like this to defeat U.S. missile defenses. We are stumbling toward an arms race,” Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear weapons expert at the Middlebury Institute [VT]of International Studies at Monterey [CA].

“Trump’s personal friendship with Putin is no substitute for the treaties that restrained the nuclear superpowers. Whatever the two leaders say, the U.S. and Russian militaries are spending billions on new nuclear weapons targeted at each other,” Lewis told CNBC.

Lewis still hasn't gotten the Mueller Report conclusions, I see.

Posted by Bobby 2019-09-11 18:56|| 2019-09-11 18:56|| Front Page Top

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