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posted by takyon on Friday December 28 2018, @08:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-getting-cold-again dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen a test of a new hypersonic missile, declaring that the weapon is impossible to intercept and will guarantee the country's security over the coming decades.

Speaking to Russia's military top brass on Wednesday after watching the live feed of the launch of the Avangard system from the defence ministry's control room, Putin said the test was a "great success" and an "excellent New Year's gift to the nation".

According to the Kremlin, the missile was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains and hit its target on a test site in Kamchatka, about 6,000km away.

[...] When first presenting it, the Russian president said the new missile system has an intercontinental range and can fly in the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound, bypassing the enemy's missile defence. He emphasised that no other country currently has hypersonic weapons.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @12:17PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @12:17PM (#779312)

    How does this weapon stop a nuke being driven into a city to be detonated?

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @12:46PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @12:46PM (#779319)

    This weapon is not an anti-missile, it is a first strike missile. Since it travels very fast it is supposed to evade anti-missile missiles.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @01:59PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @01:59PM (#779336)

      Pffft. They will burn it out of the sky with a fricken maser

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by redneckmother on Friday December 28 2018, @06:25PM (2 children)

        by redneckmother (3597) on Friday December 28 2018, @06:25PM (#779408)

        Nah, we'll just make the (imaginary) " border walls" higher. That'll fix everything :).

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        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:45AM

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:45AM (#779537) Homepage
          I think I saw that on the Simpsons Movie, didn't?
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        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:09AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:09AM (#779543)

          They'll never get through ICE before they run out of fuel.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by forkazoo on Friday December 28 2018, @05:58PM

    by forkazoo (2561) on Friday December 28 2018, @05:58PM (#779397)

    Easy, you just shoot the hypersonic missile at van-rental stores. If nobody can rent a van, nobody can use a van to drive a Nuke into a city!

    And because it's hypersonic, you can blow up a van faster than the atomic terrorist can walk to the rental shop, so the plan is definitely flawless.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @03:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @03:17AM (#779577)

    Easy, there are hidden nuke sensors along various highways at bottlenecks near cities and around sea ports and airports, they catch everything.

    There are also unmarked trucks full of sensors that get deployed to major mass events, like marathons, political rally's and such.

    There have been small mentions in the media for years about someone with a radioactive cancer implant or someone and their mineral collection containing uranium or radium, getting pulled over by multiple law enforcement personal and having their vehicles thoroughly searched by guys in full radiation suits.