Comment Re:Next step? Stealth. (Score 1) 319
Someone is also forgetting the Avenger Systems that the Army deploys all over the east coast. It's easy to make a head-on intercept with a Stinger.
Someone is also forgetting the Avenger Systems that the Army deploys all over the east coast. It's easy to make a head-on intercept with a Stinger.
Yes, because a supersonic thermal bloom won't attract the attention of NorthCom, who won't vector in some fighters with look-down-shoot down radar (like F-15Cs and F-22s) to kill the thing.
Not Quite, the Development of longer ranged CIWS like Laser CIWS, RAM block 2, ect are making the chance of killing systems like BrahMos harder to wield effectively.
The Range of the Missile Defense systems varies from things like GBI which cover whole continents down to Irondome which cover villages. To say that this makes missile defense obsolete is disingenuous at best.
It is my understanding that Laser based Close In Weapons Systems like this one are being developed to counter the threat than High speed Missiles present. So yeah, you stand a good chance of being right.
A low flying supersonic object will not be stealthy at all.
There is nothing inherently unstealthy about supersonic. The F-22 is supersonic [cruise] and stealthy.
Heat. Supersonic at low levels means lots of heat. Moving fast at low speeds makes it easier to find you in the radar clutter as we can filter out everything moving bellow say, 500 miles and hour.
I believe what the GP meant (and how I interpreted what he wrote) is that there's no apparent benefit of a supersonic cruise missile over a supersonic ballistic missile. If you are going for speed, it can be detected, so you might as well make the missile ballistic and go for maximum speed.
Except, I can shoot down your ballistic missiles a whole lot easier than I can your Cruise missiles because your ballistic missiles are over the horizon for a lot longer. Literally shooting down ICBMs is easy - think skeet shooting with computers, and you have a good idea. Systems integration is a bitch, but it always will be.
Wow. Did you take stupid pills or something?
1. We can look at he fallout and see where the original material came from that made the bomb.
2. We have this thing called "Radar", it lets us track things that come toward us in the air. We've only had it for 60+ years, so you might have missed it.
I mentioned this before, but people never seem to remember the Hound Dog:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-28_Hound_Dog
Torpedos hit submarines. When missiles try to hit submarines they explode on the surface. And it is a lot harder to go supersonic underwater (for two reasons).
Someone forgot about the ASROC and the SS-N-16. Both use Missiles to launch either a torpedo or a depth charge at an enemy ship or sub.
The first?
This is incorrect. In the late 1950's the US developed the 'Hound Dog' AGM-28 (GAM-77/GAM-77A under the designation system at the time). In Service in 1960, the Hound Dog was unique in that the turbojet that it carried could be run off of the carrying B-52's fuel, practically allowing the use of the engines on Both Hound Dogs during takeoff. While not as fast as BrahMos, the Hound Dog could fly Three and a half times further, and could carry a nuclear weapon (no doubt in my mind that the Indias have a nuclear BrahMos in the works).
Why do any work at all? The closed captioning data is all there, and is searchable. Plus if you click the transcript, it takes you to that part of the video.
Someone above me mentioned Metadata - the Closed caption data is already included in a search-able form, this we don't need to regenerate the metadata.
Also now I can direct link to Obama saying "It helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines" (relating to the election infrastructure).
As any man who thought it was a good idea to model the Earth's climate as if it were a smooth, rock sphere with no oceans, and no plant life so his model would generate "Nuclear Winter" should be.
May the fraud never rest in peace.
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