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| Tango01 | 20 Mar 2020 12:43 p.m. PST |
… Hypersonic Warhead In The Pacific "The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy, in cooperation with the Missile Defense Agency, have conducted their first joint test launch of a new hypersonic warhead in the Pacific. The two services plan to eventually deploy this common hypersonic boost-glide vehicle on top of land-based and submarine-launched missiles, respectively. A launch took place at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii at approximately 10:30 PM local time on Mar. 19. A ground-launched rocket booster propelled the Common Hypersonic Glide Body vehicle, or C-HGB, to the desired speed and altitude, after which it "flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point," according to a Pentagon statement. The announcement did not say how fast the vehicle flew or how far, but hypersonic speed is defined as being above Mach 5 and the Pentagon said that the new weapons could enable the Army and the Navy to quickly "strike targets hundreds and even thousands of miles away."…" YouTube link
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| Thresher01 | 20 Mar 2020 5:50 p.m. PST |
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| VonTed | 20 Mar 2020 7:01 p.m. PST |
Didn't we do this back in the fifties? And it was deemed to destabilizing at the time? |
| Uparmored | 21 Mar 2020 2:55 a.m. PST |
Now US just needs lotsa them |
| JMcCarroll | 21 Mar 2020 12:48 p.m. PST |
What does a nation do when they know these missiles are inbound and they could contain nukes? |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 21 Mar 2020 4:24 p.m. PST |
What does a nation do when they know these missiles are inbound and they could contain nukes? Retaliate first and ask questions later? But don't worry, it's just part of the high tech arms race and unlikely to be used as a first-strike weapon. |
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