How do you feel about the first recorded combat in space?
Are ICBMs obsolete now with modern interception technology?
How far into the Wikipedia article for ww3 will this event be?
Space combat NOW
How do you feel about the first recorded combat in space?
Are ICBMs obsolete now with modern interception technology?
How far into the Wikipedia article for ww3 will this event be?
houthis has space missiles? whats next, hamas moon bases?
No, Israel said the missile travelled 1000miles over Saudi Arabia which is the distance as the Crow flies and hacks are taking that to mean it was 1000 miles ABOVE land
ballistic missiles go into space. Though I don't know why morons are acting like this is the first ballistic missile kill ever. A few years back THAAD blew up a sand nagger ballistic missile aimed at UAE
WW2 nations already had ballistics, for all their shortcomings Iran can just steal as much data as they can from the west or barter from rivals of USA
Supposedly this is the only thing the russians never diverted funds from, supposedly.
I'm honestly more impressed that Yemen actually has low orbit missiles despite being under siege from Saudi Arabia.
What missile could it be? Who produced them and who supplied them?
they were mine, sorry
V2 were produced underground in massive facilities. I suppose Houti has an enormous network of missile production, testing and research facilities under the desert.
Houthi's inherited the pallywood playbook of claiming to being genocided/besieged when their enemy actually is pretty chill and enabling with them.
>low orbit
Not even close. Ballistic missiles that arc above the atmosphere are just that: bullets that fly high before falling down. Getting orbital is a whole other matter entirely.
"Sub-orbital" might be the word here. Or we could just call them ballistic missiles.
Sub-orbital wouldn't be wrong, technically, but I think that just ballistic gives a better picture of what those thing actually do. After all, the Paris gun and the Gustav shot projectiles on a ballistic trajectory with an apogee above the Karman line I believe, nobody called them suborbital. I see suborbital used more in a mostly civilian context, for instance Blue Origin's joyride for the ultrawealthy, or to describe sounding rockets.
no. A single THAAD battery is around a billion dollars. This technology has existed for a while. Most ICBMs have decoys specifically designed to defeat interceptors, though THAAD supposedly can differentiate shitty russian decoys now. But still there aren't anywhere near enough interceptors to intercept 2000+ nuclear warheads and their decoys from an all out assault. ICBMs were designed in anticipation of interception technology improving.
Just intercept the missile before the warheads separate
As long as flight is powered it isn’t ballistic and hard to intercept, relatively speaking
It was an Arrow-2 interceptor, the is endoatmospheric. It did not, and can not, go into space. That's what the Arrow-3 is for. The Houthi missile was a fucking SCUD knock-off, with a lighter payload to increase range. Stop listening to retard journalist that wouldn't know the difference between a TBM and an IRBM.
Would journalists actually do that? Just go tell lies?
Of course, but in this case it's just incompetent journalists who don't care enough to check whether what they are writing is factually correct.
No! Never!
Is it really a lie if you're too much of a retard to understand your own words?
Impressive. With this most recent achievement fate has in a single stroke marked the decline of US and spelled a new era of wondrous prosperity and peaceful global dominance of the israeli gazelle
What a fucking shit parent, assuming that homosexual is that kid's parent. This is part of why I am totally cool with Gaza being flattened and the Palestinian problem being permanently solved. No matter what the Israelis do they will have generation after generation of retards to deal with because instead of teaching their kids to be civilized the Palestinians teach their kids to be violent hateful assholes just like they are. The cycle will never break because nearly all of the adult Palestinians are complete fucking barbarians.
it was shot down in the atmosphere
what a nothingburger, missile with long trajectory are more easily intercepted, that's exactly why hypersonic missile doesn't fly into space
Are US satellites / Saudi patriot batteries detecting these launches and telling Israel to prepare for an intercept?
I doubt they have OTH radar systems like the Russian Woodpecker or Pave Paws, so their traditional radar wouldn’t be ideal for high percentage intercepts.