Magical Russian gravity comrade. It’s like normal gravity, only extra special.
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Ballistic missiles exit the atmosphere and follow an easily calculated path. They are only hypersonic on reentry, and they fly high enough to be easily visible to radar from a great distance.
Hypersonic missiles instead fly in the upper reaches of the atmosphere and can change their path at any time, and most of the flight path is hidden from radar by the curvature of the earth.
See video starting at 9:30.
And you think the Russians, who can’t even get the quality control on their Su-57s in order, can pull that off reliably?
If you were saying the Chinese, ok that makes sense. They’re competent and are rich as ■■■■■ The Russians are a mess and as broke as I am.
Do you think that the US, who spent over a trillion dollars and decades of R&D on new fighter jets that can’t fly near thunderstorms, can suddenly catch up on hypersonic missiles? The US is at least five years behind Russia on hypersonic technology.
LOL… you’ll believe anything Russia tells you.
Hint: They cannot maneuver at high altitude, the air is too thin, they also are not traveling at hypersonic speeds when they’re deployed, it takes gravity to do that.
This technology has been around since 1980. it’s all hype
The F-35 has early teething troubles. No one has ever denied that. And the program was a ■■■■■■■ crap show. No one has ever denied that either.
That said, I’ll put it up against the Su-57 any day of the week. Because it’s American and when it works it really ■■■■■■■ works. Whereas the Felon, despite being a beautiful airplane, doesn’t really work.
The Russians bragged about its stealth. It’s less stealthy than a ■■■■■■■ Super Hornet from the 1990s.
Thank you for supplying an article from 2021, before Russia’s successful use of the technology in Ukraine.
The ability to produce the missiles in quantity is a huge issue. Western media have repeatedly stated that Russia only few weeks away from running out of missiles for the last 2 1/2 years, but the attacks keep getting bigger.
The Houthis’ missile was able to evade the US Navy in the Red Sea and Israel’s Iron Dome before it hit Tel Aviv. That is consistent with the capability of the hypersonic missile.
Yes the Russians are good at hitting old Soviet apartment complexes. They suck at actually killing Ukrainian soldiers in the field though and that is where the war will be lost or won.
Also, if Russian production is so good, why are they pulling T-62s out of storage to go fight in Ukraine? It’s a tank that a Bradley’s autocannon can punch through. I know they don’t care about their own soldiers lives but my God even Douglas Haig would find this excessive.
Sputnik was a huge blow to American sense of superiority. Multiple spectacular American failures on national television did not help.
The lesson, of course, is to ignore any problems and never allow live reports of test launches.
Keep the faith. Every American knows that Russians are just a bunch of ignorant peasants in ox carts. The same sort of thing is true for the Chinese and Iranians as well . . .
Uhm, there’s a key thing there man. Russia isn’t the Soviet Union. The USSR, despite being a basket case, was somewhat competent on some things and had a half way functioning state apparatus. Not this rob everything blind thing the modern Russian state thing has going on.
Also I’ve never called the Russians ignorant. They’re actually pretty smart people that made a lot of advances in science during the Soviet era like the Venera program. Same for the Chinese. And while the Iran of today isn’t the Persia of ancient times that ruled Astronomy back in the day, it’s still impressive they somehow kept their F-14s flying despite us embargoing the ■■■■ out of them and canceling all spare part production in the early 2000s.
More Russian copium
they send a lot of Shaheeds, they use very few missiles.
The Houthi’s likely fired a LR ballistic missile on a depressed trajectory. They don’t have any airframes to drop a cruise missile from, and they damned sure don’t have ground launched “hypersonic” missiles
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Ah yes, the Houthis, the next great global power.
An Droid makes pagers? I thought she only made smartphones? 
Israel isn’t feeling like it’s surrender for hostages time
China has 2 airplane carriers, and 3 helicopter carriers (Iran has 1)
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/aircraft-carriers-by-country
looks like we dominate the air over the seas
The Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group remains in the Middle East. The two-carrier presence was always meant to be temporary.
