NEW YORK – A March 8 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on China’s naval capabilities cites the view of top US commanders that China’s arsenal of anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs)…

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    • RNAi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They knew about hypersonic missiles since 2009?

      So the Great Satan has their own lot of them, right?

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        They're trying to make them, but they keep failing lol.

        The great satan lacks the material science knowledge to make hypersonic missiles, unless they get SpaceX involved.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          No, really, 13 years later they have to eventually been able to design something; and it's not like they started developing something like that after China announced they have done it, the idea is probably very old.

          So, then what? The US kept it quiet? Is it possible to do that?

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            They have one but it keeps blowing up in testing lol.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-183_ARRW

            Testing.

            A booster flight test of ARRW took place in April 2021 at Point Mugu Sea Range, off the coast of Southern California but did not launch successfully;[16] this was the eighth test for ARRW.[17]

            Another test in May 2021 for the ARRW's avionics, sensors and communications systems, was successful. The test did not use any of the ARRW’s systems but instead used a B-52 based system. On a flight to Alaska from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, the B-52 was able to receive target data from over 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) away.[18]

            In July 2021, a second flight test at Point Mugu Sea Range, again being dropped from a B-52 bomber, was a failure as the rocket motor failed to ignite.[19][20] On 15 December 2021, the third flight test failed to launch as well.[21] On 9 March 2022, Congress halved funding for ARRW and transferred the balance to ARRW's R&D account to allow for further testing, which puts the procurement contract at risk.[22]

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Do the great Satan have much use for hypersonic missiles? China and Russia doesn't rely on aircraft carriers the same way the great Satan does.

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Maybe you can put those hypersonic missiles on boats, or in US puppet countries.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The comments are pure :copium: and it's making my day:

      Isn’t this like saying, “ships currently have no defence against meteor strikes?”

      Since when is ballistic missile guidance in any way capable of homing on a moving vehicle? If there’s anything more innovative to this technology than Russian-style military “not having analogs in the world” pot-beating, it would have been worth an analysis in the article.

      Come on, this weapon is plasma stealth all over again – does not and never will exist in any usable capacity, except buzz. Homing seeker electronic sensors don’t survive re-entry, end of story. The Harpoon is NOT a ballistic missile!

      Escorts can shoot down incoming BMs in their terminal phase until their SM cells are empty; they can carry far more SMs amongst them than China could lob at a CVBG. Something coming down fast and hot is easy to shoot down.

      By the way, has no-one mentioned the Standard SM-3 Block IIa yet? True, it’s untested under war conditions, but it is an anti-ballistic missile defence that has the virtue of actually existing, as opposed to this Chinese superweapon that, at the moment, is about as real as The Red October.

      :frothingfash: :rage-cry: