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Pravda reports on a super-advanced aircraft which could be real or could be propaganda:
This top-secret aircraft, known as the U-71, is part of Project 4202 of the Russian missile program. There is very little information about the aircraft. Supposedly, the aircraft can develop the speeds of up to 11,000 kilometers per hour. This glider aircraft is also said to be super-maneuverable and capable of entering near space.
The tests of the new aircraft still continue, although it is already believed that Russia will take a nuclear advantage of the USA with the help of the new type of weapon by 2025.
[...] The information about the project leaked only in February 2015. Pentagon officials admitted that the new Russian weapon would ruin the plan for a missile defense system around Russia. To make matters worse, the new weapon would make the USA absolutely defenseless.
The U-71 is a hypersonic aircraft equipped with electronic warfare system. It will be able to fly across the USA in minutes and disable all electronic detection stations on the way.
Nothing technical here, folks, the article doesn't make any specific technological claims, or explain how the aircraft works.
The article is interesting, as well as the audio link on the page, in that it makes a pretty plain statement. The only way to negotiate with Washington, is to make Washington fear you.
I'm not convinced the aircraft exists, and certainly not convinced that it is capable of what is claimed. It's going to knock out all of our electronic defenses in one pass? Really?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Geotti on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:44PM
I'm not convinced the aircraft exists, and certainly not convinced that it is capable of what is claimed. It's going to knock out all of our electronic defenses in one pass? Really?
What's I find more interesting is the Pentagon allegedly admitting that such an aircraft "would ruin the plan for a missile defense system around Russia."
Weren't the SAMs and THAADs pointed at Iran and North Korea? What happened? Someone set up us the bomb?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:47PM
Kind of fishy
"Oh the russians might have this thing, hurry and give us more money"
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:50PM
"Global cooling is going to destroy the entire planet in the next 10 years, hurry and give us more money"
(Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:08AM
Kind of fishy
It's been published in Pravda, it's got to be true. By definition, the Russians wouldn't call it "The Truth" if it wasn't.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:00AM
so-o-o-o...
as some article somewheres on the fake news intertubes sez: the pentagram has confessed to (*at least*) 'wasting' (illegal dispensing of armaments, hijacking of arms, insider 'shrinkage', etc?) an amount which is TWICE what the dread pirtate putin et al spend on their entire military machine...
so-o-o-o...
if you do the math, the cost to develop such a system in reality is, um, like, a *lot*, like, a million elementary schools, or sumpin... anyway, the cost to *say* you have or are developing 'X' systems is approximately $4.87 per propaganda posting... (they use mechanical turk a lot...)
so-o-o-o...
which do you think is most likely ? ? ?
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:48AM
Well, to be honest, there's little reason to doubt that all of the actors (US, Russia, China) already have (working) hypersonic prototypes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:07AM
> What's I find more interesting is the Pentagon allegedly admitting
Hold up there.
Its Pravda. You know Pravda, right? The Russia Today before there was a Russia Today.
Isn't everyone here old enough to have lived through the days when Pravda was the first entry in the thesaurus for Propaganda?
(Score: 2, Funny) by charon on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:43AM
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:46AM
That's why I wrote allegedly, I'd be interested in seeing a quote, which is missing from the Pravda article.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:06AM
I'm not convinced the aircraft exists, and certainly not convinced that it is capable of what is claimed.
Just wait till it teleports into US airspace and starts dropping its Red Mercury bombs, then you'll be sorry.