Comments on: Russia’s Zircon hypersonic missile can do two things

By: TRX

TRX — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:21:06 +0000

Inertial guidance is good enough to get your missile to the combat zone. It could drop down to Mach 3, take a GPS fix and downlink any further instructions, then boogie back up to Mach 5 for the attack run.

Another option would be to send a handful of low speed, low-observable drones ahead, possibly at very high altitude, and have them punch through the ionization laser with focussed lasers to transmit guidance data.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:08:02 +0000

So in other words, US Air Bases are sitting ducks.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:33:14 +0000

“The missile can either be hypersonic or low observable but not both in tandem,” wrote Kaushal.

Those grapes are sour, I tell you. Sour!

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:10:24 +0000

“More visible to radar”

I take it “blocks radar signals” means deflects, not absorbs. The wave front itself will show up on radar.

https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/new-report-hypersonic-weapons-offer-few-advantages

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:46:45 +0000

The real point, however, is that both Russia and China have deployed operational hypersonic missiles, and Russia has used them in combat. The US is still trying to develop hypersonics, and probably won’t deploy them for several years.

Thirty years of chasing down Muslim peasants cost us several thousand lives and several tens of thousands of cripples. We also spent up to $7 trillion on the project, and in the process we lost our technological leads in many area, and now trail the Russians and Chinese significantly.