Comments on: They both fly low and move fast

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 02:50:44 +0000

It’s drones that are the game changer, and we’ve fallen behind. The Turks [!] are in the lead now globally, and in demand.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 21:48:24 +0000

As Gavin said, it’s not going to be doing Mach 5+ whilst sea-skimming. The damn thing will melt.

You can get to, maybe, the top end of Mach 3 while down on the deck and even that not for long; that’s the limit of the material science.

The issue of then getting the weapon seeker to function through a white-hot sheaf of plasma is left as an exercise for the attentive reader.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 21:14:18 +0000

A sea skimming missile flying in the dense atmosphere just above the waves at several times the speed of sound is going to get hot — very hot.

Everyone already has heat-seeking technology.

And something traveling so fast is going to be very susceptible to damage by anything it hits.

A heat seeking missile which blows out a blast of ball bearings in the path of the oncoming hypersonic missile (a flying Claymore mine, so to speak) and the problem is over.

Now that reported Chinese ship-killing nuclear missile — that would be a real problem!