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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: 2) by legont on Friday December 28 2018, @08:04PM (7 children)

    by legont (4179) on Friday December 28 2018, @08:04PM (#779444)

    Since hypersonic means 5-10x speed of sound, no word is yet invented for this baby. Where are the liberals when we need them?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 28 2018, @09:13PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday December 28 2018, @09:13PM (#779463) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed#Classification_of_Mach_regimes [wikipedia.org]

    "Hypersonic" has been used to refer to Mach ~20. However, you can call it "High-hypersonic".

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @09:52PM (#779477)

    Now I know you conservatives aren't the brightest but aren't you ashamed to be asking for help naming military terminology?

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 28 2018, @11:01PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 28 2018, @11:01PM (#779502) Journal

    Since hypersonic means 5-10x speed of sound, no word is yet invented for this baby.

    You may call them ICMBs [wikipedia.org]

    • boost phase: 3 to 5 minutes; it is shorter for a solid-fuel rocket than for a liquid-propellant rocket; depending on the trajectory chosen, typical burnout speed is 4 km/s (2.5 mi/s), up to 7.8 km/s (4.8 mi/s);...
    • ...
    • reentry/terminal phase (starting at an altitude of 100 km, 62 mi): 2 minutes – impact is at a speed of up to 7 km/s (4.3 mi/s)...
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    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:25AM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:25AM (#779549) Journal

      You may call them ICMBs ICBMs [wikipedia.org]

      FTFY

      impact is at a speed of up to 7 km/s (4.3 mi/s)

      Technically, most aren't designed to impact; they are intended to detonate above the target. Perhaps the phrase that would go best here is "terminal velocity may be as high as 7 km/s (4.3 mi/s)"

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    • (Score: 2) by legont on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:05AM (1 child)

      by legont (4179) on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:05AM (#779587)

      The issue with ICBM's is the B - ballistic part. One can think about them as stupid or better yet idiot's weapons.

      Super or hyper sonic name is used for advanced guided flying machines. Regardless, with 20x sound speed and ramjet engine we got yet another Sputnik moment and we better admit it or else. The baby needs just about 50% more for earth escape speed.

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      • (Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:58PM

        by fakefuck39 (6620) on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:58PM (#779677)

        Let's admit it's a sputnik moment. A beeping useless box put in orbit. Just like with Sputnik, they put a huge engine on something, launched 20 of them, then claimed victory when one went through. They did this on manned rockets too. While we had a high safety threshold, the Russians just killed a bunch of their own people. It's ww2 all over again. No accomplishment here, no way to aim this thing at anything, nothing anyone else couldn't do, but didn't - because why? Big fake claims, just like during the cold war.

        I had front row seats at some of those army parades down red square (gramma was in the kgb). Even to us, all that tech they were parading looked fake. The Russian military budget - $70bil. US - $600bil. Their military is untrained, their technology never worked, is 40 years old and falling apart, and all this cool new shit is nonexistent and propaganda.

        You say "or else" - or else what? They're going to keep themselves a perpetually poor underdeveloped country and lose the second cold war they're trying to start. Don't make me laugh. Russia a a joke, withthe GDP about half of fucking tiny cheese-eating lazy France. Their GDP per capita is $10k, while prices are the same as the US. Their whole economy is oil and gas exports.

        It's funny that their population buys into the propaganda while not able to afford a toilet seat. Because they're idiots - all the smart people left that country and are now living in and working for the west. Did these idiots build a super weapon or did they put a huge engine on a tube, shoot it straight up, and claim they created an unbeatable weapon?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:19PM (#779662)

    Cyber is the new bees knees. Proven to work at the highest level.