Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Did a Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal fall into the Dnipro River near Kyiv?" video.

  1. ​ @pjhgerlach  Not how it works. Once you rob the aerodynamics out of a flying object, atmospheric drag will force it to stop. Simply knocking an aerodynamic object off axis at high altitude will make it airbrake and eventually lose momentum to enter free fall. Besides, ballistic weapons often come in at near vertical angles.
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  2. ​ @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Terminal velocity is not weapon velocity. It's the max velocity an object can achieve when free falling. Weapon velocity of a Khinzal is achieved by rocket boosting into thin atmosphere to reduce drag, and then fall on target before drag can slow the warhead down to subsonic. If you shoot down a weapon, the loss of control will lead to atmospheric drag and thus slow it down to the terminal velocity.
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  3. ​ @leongao5120  Nah. Even an off center hit would knock the object into tumbling, and the atmosphere would force it to slow down to terminal. A supersonic airplane diving will be hitting the ground at supersonic speed. A supersonic airplane struck by a missile can spin around, take several minutes for the airframe to reach the ground.
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  4. ​ @leongao5120  Baumgartener jumped from 71k feet and spent 3 minutes 43 seconds in free fall. 3 minutes is plenty of time for something to slow down. Remember, the faster you go, the more drag you suffer. And drag increases as the atmosphere gets thicker.
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  5. Hypersonic only works when it follows design conditions. Once shot down, terminal velocity is handled by atmospheric drag.
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  6. Missile could already be falling. The terminal phase of a ballistic missile is almost vertical from an observer in the receiving end. Alternatively, the missile being knocked off balance could make it fall as it lost control authority, but terminal velocity due to drag makes it fall at a set speed.
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  7. ​ @yjk1037  Atmospheric drag. Also, ballistic missiles come down at near vertical. They hit an apex and fall down.
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  8. It would slow down due to something called drag. After you hit an aerodynamic object and knock it off course, it becomes an air brake. It's like a bullet being forced to go sideways. You went from a bullet to something with the ballistic coefficient of a brick.
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  9. 1. Ballistic missiles are diving on terminal. 2. Atmospheric drag after being knocked off course.
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  10. Yes. Once knocked off course the atmospheric drag takes over. Mach 4 works when it falls for a few seconds and hits the ground before drag can slow it down further. Let the atmosphere slow you down for a couple minutes in free fall, all that speed will be gone.
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  11.  @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Depends what the trajectory is. You're assuming the missile is horizontal and covering a great distance. However it's near the target, which means it would have been falling near vertically. Patriots were tested against the Pershing II warhead in 1997. That was a maneuverable reentry warhead, and it came in at hypersonic speeds. You're claiming something isn't possible when it was tested two decades ago.
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  12. You don't even know what imposter syndrome is. Imposter symdrome is when an overqualified person doubts his/her own skills.
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  13. They wouldn't risk a Su-34 70km near Kiyv. The aircraft dropping glide FABs are vulnerable to SAMs.
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