Comments by "That Car Guy" (@ThatCarGuy) on "What UK-supplied Storm Shadow could bring to the fight in Ukraine" video.
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@ramatgan1 "Russia has the best air defence systems in the world"
That would be the US with THAAD with it's almost 5000km radar range which Russia and China accused South Korea of using theirs to spy on them and the Ground based missile defense, that fastest missile in the world capable of mach 33.
""The AN/TPY-2 Surveillance Transportable Radar, also called the Forward Based X-Band Transportable (FBX-T) is a long-range, very high-altitude active digital antenna array X band surveillance radar designed to add a tier to existing missile and air defence systems. It has a range of 2,900 mi (2,500 nmi; 4,700 km)""
"The GBI consists of a 3-stage solid rocket boost vehicle which can place it's payload of an Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle outside the earth's atmosphere. In order to do this the missile must reach an escape velocity of more than 6.9 miles per second. This hypersonic speed is several times what a 7.62mm bullet travels leaving the muzzle of a gun. To put it another way, it reaches a speed of approximately Mach 33."
"only country with genuine hypersonic capability."
As proven above the US has the fastest hypersonic missile, they have had hypersonic missiles since the 1970s. The AIM-54 flew on the F-14s.
"What's the use of a aircraft carrier when you have a hypersonic missile?!. It's becomes a sitting target!"
Hypersonic missiles wont be used against ships do to their lack of maneuverability, Russia patent below stating they can't maneuver, need to shut their engines off, can lose stability and even self destruct coming back down to it's target. But first lets do some math. Zircons top speed is mach 9 right? Converting to km/s that is about 3km/s. Say you wanted to move a single degree for 5 seconds at 3km/s you would be off course 15km... Almost as much as the Chinese test missed by.
"Russian patent number 2579409 relates to the field of rocket technology, and more specifically to hypersonic cruise missiles equipped with a hypersonic ramjet engine. The invention describes a method of application and device hypersonic cruise missile, allowing to solve the problem of performing a combat mission to destroy ground and surface targets of such a missile. The described invention is designed to maximize the combat potential of the combat module with the scramjet.
The design mode for the scramjet are high-altitude cruise conditions while maintaining the estimated cruise speed, and the need to reduce the altitude and flight speed creates difficult technical problems due to the fact that:
an engine designed to perform a hypersonic mid-flight at high altitude is not able to continue to work at low-altitude trajectory sections associated with a decrease in the flight number M, hence, the rocket must approach the ground or surface target with an inactive engine;
characteristics of sustainability and controllability of the combat module with inactive scramjet significantly deteriorate, loss of stability becomes possible;
there is also a danger of destruction of the scramjet design due to the increase in pressure in the flow part of the engine while reducing the Combat module from the march height before hitting the target."
"Where is the Himars, patriot, leopard or challenger tanks that there were game changes?! They proved to be complete failures and the world has seen this and taken note."
You have to be a Putin bot. HIMARs has pushed Russian troops back to the point Putin had to lie and say they were all destroyed to boost moral.
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