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