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What is the range on hypersonic missles? Perhaps the defense is avoiding detection and keeping a standoff distance until you want to strike?
by rocqua 4y ago
What is the range on hypersonic missles? Perhaps the defense is avoiding detection and keeping a standoff distance until you want to strike?
- rjzzleep 4y ago“Launch in August of nuclear-capable rocket that circled the globe took US intelligence by surprise” Not sure where your stand-off distance would be. https://www.ft.com/content/ba0a3cde-719b-4040-93cb-a486e1f843fb https://www.ft.com/content/ba0a3cde-719b-4040-93cb-a486e1f84...
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoChinese and Russian hypersonic capabilities are a money bell for American defence contractors. For cross-strait warfare, they’re irrelevant. (Conventional artillery dominates at that range.)
- simonh 4y agoHard for American carrier based air assets and AEGIS cruisers to help defend Taiwan if they all got killed by hypersonic missiles.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoThat carriers would be sunk pretty much instantly is a given, and has been for a while now. The USN invests heavily in subs, and you don't hear much about them for a reason...