3 ms·
There's logic to the idea that, if your adversaries are suddenly interested in something, it is probably worth your time to make sure you're not missing anythin
by _jal 6y ago
There's logic to the idea that, if your adversaries are suddenly interested in something, it is probably worth your time to make sure you're not missing anything.
Of course, there's also logic to generating red herrings to waste your adversaries' resources, and the US has done that to others.
- phkahler 6y ago>> Of course, there's also logic to generating red herrings to waste your adversaries' resources, and the US has done that to others. Or at least that's the story we tell when the budget it spent with nothing to show for it.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoTheir logic is known though, and it's simply to deliver nukes in the face of American ballistic missile defence (BMD) systems. The US doesn't face any BMD to defeat, so they just want hypersonics because the others have them. And with the heating mentioned in the text being such that you can't put any good sensing into them, a hypersonic without a nuke is simply a very fast missile that almost always misses its target.