Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Russia fires 7,000mph Zircon hypersonic nuke missile" video.

  1. NO need for the click bait, it only make you seem like some low-class scammer: a missile is not a "nuke" missile unless it has a nuclear warhead. A hypersonic missile without a nuclear warhead is just a very expensive way to blow up a building. FYI: hypersonic missiles must decelerate when approaching the target proximity, or they are unable to track the target with radar, IR, GPS -- whatever. Some are able to do evasive maneuvers at this point, but are also vulnerable to interception by conventional means, as well as hypersonic anti-missiles-missiles. All ICBMs are hypersonic, but most, currently lack the ability to decelerate and maneuver. The USA abandoned its own hypersonic program decades ago, or so they say. The US robotic space vehicle the X-37B is also hypersonic. But in the end, if worse comes to worse, we may well find out that speed just doesn't matter to defensive laser and other beam type weapons, unless of course you are warping nukes to the target FTL.
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