"US to Develop Hypersonic Missiles Too" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 20 Apr 2018 5:25 a.m. PST |
The U.S. Air Force has tapped defense giant Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic weapon, in a deal reportedly worth $928,000,000 USD … link |
| SBminisguy | 20 Apr 2018 8:06 a.m. PST |
More like finish development and deploy. The US pioneered hypersonic weapons a decade or more ago, at which time China and Russia screamed about how awful and destabilizing such weapons would be, how DARE the US upset the delicate global arms balance, blah, blah, blah. So the US didn't finalize development and deploy. Ten years later the Russians and the Chinese have gotten to advanced testing of the very weapons they had earlier decried…and now the US is maybe finally going to go ahead with actual weapons as well. Let that be a lesson to us -- when your strategic competitors scream bloody murder about a new system…deploy it. |
| Winston Smith | 20 Apr 2018 8:13 a.m. PST |
If you think that R&D hasn't been going on at various Skunk Works facilities…
Our pants haven't been down. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 20 Apr 2018 8:35 a.m. PST |
The proven Balance of Power concept of the Cold War applies here as well. No one power should possess a destabilizing military advantage over another. Mutually Assured Destruction is anything but mad, since it ensures that there will be no World War III if we hold each other hostage. |
| Andrew Walters | 20 Apr 2018 9:50 a.m. PST |
It's about time. SAM and anti-missile systems have gotten a lot better, we're probably not far from the moment when subsonic missiles become un-dangerous. I'm a little worried the US might be late here. |
| jdginaz | 20 Apr 2018 11:47 a.m. PST |
The fact that neither country really wanted to go to war had a lot more to do with the peace than MAD. |
| Lion in the Stars | 20 Apr 2018 11:36 p.m. PST |
MAD raises the cost of going to war to the point that almost no-one is willing to pay it. But I agree with 28mm Fanatik. You really don't want to know how loose a cannon LeMay and a bunch of the other SAC generals were before the Russians had H-bombs. |
| Walking Sailor | 21 Apr 2018 12:13 p.m. PST |
The fact that neither country really wanted to go to war had a lot more to do with the peace than MAD. No, neither country really wanted to lose. MAD raises the cost of going to war to the point that almost no-one is willing to pay it. What worries me is the guy who thinks that he can win one by collecting 76 virgins. |
| SBminisguy | 24 Apr 2018 10:05 a.m. PST |
The proven Balance of Power concept of the Cold War applies here as well. No one power should possess a destabilizing military advantage over another. Except if you want to bankrupt your adversary by forcing them to spend money they don't have trying to keep up with you like Reagan did with the Soviet Union, eh? |
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