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Russia Tests 27-Mach Hypersonic Nuclear Glider
- slashcom 8y agoSo Russia ays they were forced to develop it after Trump withdrew from the nuclear treaty. 2 months is some impressive R&D time, huh?
- badrabbit 8y ago> "Putin says Russia was forced to develop the Avangard after the U.S. withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002," 2002 - 16 yrs
- PaulHoule 8y agoIs this something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 just a suborbital variant that carries a warhead?
- kuhhk 8y agoIs it odd that the control room is completely empty except the leadership?
- slededit 8y agoThat is the "control room" for the entire country when in conflict, not for the missile itself. Thankfully they aren't in a direct war where it needs to be filled.
- exabrial 8y ago767mph is not 20x the speed of sound anywhere in earth's atmosphere
- pknomad 8y agoI think the author meant speed of sound, not the missile, is 767 mph.
- zunzun 8y agoA 3,000 mile long trail of diffuse atmospheric radioactive contamination produced by the white-hot nuclear powered solid-state scramjet engine, followed by a crash of the spent nuclear fuel into Kamchatka. The crash site will have to be off-limits for millennia, increasingly leaching into the groundwater there with every rain storm and blowing about every dry season.
- londons_explore 8y agoI think it's conventionally fuelled, just can carry a nuclear warhead.