Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Drag race: hypersonic threats are slow enough for US missile defenses::Opinion: Contrary to common claims, hypersonic weapons are no wonder weapons for cracking air-defense shields, argue analysts David Wright and Cameron Tracy.
Russia’s idea of hypersonic is laughable.
They only measure the top speed, not the speed it hits a target. That’s stupid because that’s how ALL missiles work.
I get what you’re saying, but wouldn’t the impact speed be it’s highest speed? I really don’t know.
It depends because some missiles don’t hit targets while the rocket engine is running. Often the rocket engine sends the rocket into a parabolic trajectory and shuts off at the peak altitude and then it coasts to the target while moving to avoid AA. HIMARS does that but there are missiles that don’t, but they aren’t labelled hypersonic like the javelin.
The idea behind hypersonic is that’s it’s always at hypersonic speeds which means very hard to intercept. Half hypersonic is how many missles works.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I came here expecting to see Ru Paul.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ru Paul would want every advanced weapon system to be their best self