Nice false dichotomy, globalist.

I think she's full of shit. Which changes nothing - censorship is and will always be wrong.

Yes, because if natives living in grass huts knew about them, then they were totally "known to science." Just ask professor Nine Thunders of grass hut university!

Israel has nukes. If they ever decide to conduct a genocide, you'll fucking know it.

"We said the magic asylum words now you have to let us in!" Yes yes very legal, so formal, much fair

Yes it's all those filthy conservative "wreckers" who totally have political power in California who ruined the great socialist dream!

It's always fascinating watching a psycopath trying to gaslight people into believing Iran's innocence, despite the countdown clock to Israel's destruction in downtown Tehran. Animals like you remind me why I carry a gun.

I, too, trust the jew-hating, homosexual murdering, genocidal theocracy.

There's a big difference between weapons that achieve hypersonic speeds via a big rocket booster, and AIR BREATHING hypersonic weapons. In rocket fuel and explosives alike only about 25-33% of the mix is fuel - the rest is oxidizer. Thus, anything that breathes air - that gets its 02 for "free" from the atmosphere - is MUCH lighter and smaller than a ballistic rocket booster. This matters a lot when you're trying to load missiles onto, say, a warship, with strict tonnage and volume limits. Or an aircraft, for that matter. The big race right now is to develop working, reliable air-breathing scramjet weapons.

Ballistic hypersonics are a big deal again themselves for different reasons. The first is the "hypersonic glide vehicle," or HGV. Boosted with a normal ballistic missile, then it just glides on the residual energy. Unlike a MIRV, which just adjusts trajectory out of the atmosphere and then falls more or less ballistic, a boost-glide HGV can steer and maneuver in the lower atmosphere and make a significant part of its approach at below-the-radar altitudes. Even though it slows considerably, if you only have a few seconds to engage it once it pops over the horizon, the residual speed it has is more than enough. That's a game-changer and a significant improvement on Ye Olden RV.

The second reason is that missiles are really, really, REALLY good these days. Even as late as the 1990s, in Desert Storm, the US was using the old and much-hated AIM-7 Sparrow missile, who's record in combat was regrettable at best. 70 years after the USAF gleefully ditched guns for missiles on their "Century Series" fighters, air to air missiles have finally achieved the accuracy and reliability they over-enthusiastically expected of them when they were new. When the Tomahawk cruise missile was new, it was fairly good at penetrating air defenses simply by being "something small flying low." That was enough. Now, it's more or less considered a target; if your weapon isn't stealthy or at least low/reduced RCS, it's going to eat an interceptor going up against any decently modern air defense systems.

For poorer countries that aren't tech leaders who are looking to beef with the US, that means that previously uneconomical options are now cost-effective... such as rocket-boosted hypersonics. Yes, rockets are heavy, huge and expensive as hell, but if the warhead gets through and one hundred cruise missiles do not, they are cost-effective. See China for an example of this philosophy put into action.

A Mach 17 missile is a hell of a lot better at intercepting a Mach 10 missile than another Mach 10 missile is.

Unless the interceptor itself is hypersonic. Which is why the Navy has built a sub-caliber saboted shell for their 5 inch guns that can achieve hypersonic velocities. The guidance systems were actually built for the Navy's Dhalgren division's railgun.

"Those COWARD GAULS fighting with SLINGS from a DISTANCE"

I know this phenomena. You can replicate the effects at home. But is it worth the effort, when the company is paying for a perfectly good office? I suppose that depends on the length of your commute.

A question I ask myself every damned day, sir.

Mismod be gone