https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-successfully-tested-lockheed-hypersonic-missile-this-week-sources-2022-07-13/
>One of Lockheed Martin's concepts for the DARPA weapon is to use an exiting High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher, like those sent to Ukraine, to launch the weapon.
Repeat after me:
HIMARS.
Launched.
Hypersonic.
Missiles.
incoming russians and chinese shills to shit up whole thread.
That would make China very quiet.
moron here: does it really matter if the missile dropping on your head is traveling at 500mph or 5,000mph?
Only if you can stop it
Speed defeats interception systems.
If it fits on HIMARS though it's too small. USA needs to focus on a weapon to destroy the three gorges dam.
>weapon to destroy the three gorges dam.
Minuteman and Trident already exist
Destruction of that damn is 100% going to be dependent on season, unless you're prepared to hammer it with 20+ warheads.
I enjoy making wumaos seethe as much as any other normal person, but the three gorges dam is really quite a staggering block of reenforced concrete.
Just look at those German flak towers that are still around even after constant bombardment during WW2, and even decades later when they decided it would cost too much time and money to tear them down.
Busting stuff like that up isn't as easy as you'd think, even when hot shit missiles.
Yeah, so invent something to do it. Make it and then build 500 of them and hide them all over Taiwan.
>thinking you need to crack the water retaining wall
>when sluice gates and transformers are easier targets
Targeting difficulty aside, sluice gates and transformers can be replaced and repaired. If you punch the gates out, the res behind will obviously drain, but it will be in a more manageable fashion.
If you're in a situation where the dam has become a target, you're looking to use it as a conflict ender, IE a catastrophic problem that forces china to say "Okay, frick, you got us. We agree to your terms of whatever because we need to address this nightmare you've created for us." That means total blowout and failure. To achieve this, it would be best to pound it during the height of the rainy season.
We actually have those already. They're nukes though. Sooo...
BTW it also means the speed of the Earth's rotation will actually increase slightly. That's how much liquid mass is held behind the dam.
let's be fair, WW2 bombs were anything but precise so the Flak Towers weren't exactly subject to precision fire at their structural weakpoints...
You don't need to completely destroy the dam, like you would a flak tower, you just need to do enough damage that the massive amount of stored energy behind it can break it for you.
So less like breaking down a wall and more like popping a balloon then. I suppose that might be why anon said it's dependent on season. More pressure behind it, easier to pop?
Yes, huge difference.
It only matters because once again the USA decided to play the moron game and built the weapon Russia only claimed to possess.
Now China will copy it in 5-20 years, while Russia will just keep pretending.
Finally, so hypersonic is not a meme anymore. It's a real thread. Right k?
As long as it doesn't get too far. Seriously tho, the last thread is a mess. Some dudes are just blind on research papers and just dismiss them as not a strong evidence.
I mean it's still just a very short range conventionally armed ballistic missile. It's kinda cool that they were able to get on this small though.
Whoops wrong reply.
No need to send those, since Russia can't even defend against regular missiles
>Lockheed Martin successfully tests hypersonic HIMARS rocket
>Russian airfield gets blasted outside of HIMARS' nominal effective range and too accurately for Tochka
pure coincidence
This is actually TWO successful tests:
>2nd successful AGM-183A ARRW test by the Air Force
>new HIMARS-launched DARPA wonderwaffle
Changs eternally BTFO
There wasn't a test of the HIMARS-launched speedyboi, only mention of a concept they're working on. But these were 2 successful tests of USAF's ARRW. I don't doubt that the HIMARS concept is probably in some measure of initial testing possibly (probably, if we're being honest), though. Lockheed can get into some spooky shit still.
>I don't doubt that the HIMARS concept is probably in some measure of initial testing possibly (probably, if we're being honest), though.
The Boeing X-51 Waverider used an ATACMS booster, which makes any 3D model of it that gets passed off as a "Russian hypersonic missile" doubly funny.
Look's like Project Pluto's little bro.
But cum/chug/er bros told me it failed and the U.S. hypersonic program was killed unlike the super effective Chinese and Russian programs.
>China and Russia invent a wunderwaffe
>U.S. actually builds it
lol
Lmao
Congrats for reaching the level of North Korea circa 2019.
>staged photo op = successful test
You're embarrassing yourself.
>replying to bait
You're embarrassing yourself