Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Impact of hypersonic weapons" video.

@Auric Navies fight from a far remove, as in 3,000 to 5,000 miles away. They destroy the enemy's ECONOMY. Napoleon, the Kaiser, Hitler, Tojo, -- and many another -- can tell you how that all works out. Striking at carriers really means that the balloon has gone up and that atomic weapons will soon hit Beijing. No nation can zap America's navy and escape total war. Just ask Tojo how that all worked out for him.
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@Kai Russia and Red China prefer to test brand new concepts in the field -- not the laboratory. That's always been true. So you should NOT assume that a Red Chinese prototype is anything other than a prototype. It may work out great, it may be withdrawn from funding. It's just too early to say. You can spot a prototype when its mounted on a test bed that would never be sent into combat under any conditions. This is indeed the case with the PLAN's rail gun. They're testing their scheme from a floating platform -- but not a combatant ship.
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@A Guy The Roman Army was totally re-worked THREE times during its classic period -- when it went pretty much from victory to victory. Study up before posting. As for the British Empire -- which was based upon the Royal Navy -- it was totally re-worked -- pretty much constantly -- especially after the Industrial Revolution ( started in Britain ) kicked off. Ironclads Dreadnoughts Air Craft Carriers Radar Britain stayed state of the art until she lost her Empire during WWII. (essentially -- India and Malaya and Burma were all 'goners' as a result of WWII -- Those were the lands that generated all of the Empire's wealth.) So, your thesis lies bleeding,... no... it's dead.
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Tactical PLAN assets are useless against the USN, as in war, the USN will destroy Red China economically by a distant blockade far, far too distant for the PLAN to even reach. Many of Red China's strategically critical imports come from NATO aligned or NATO dependent nations. A phone call is sufficient to shut them off. At the top of the list is phosphates. There are VERY few nations that export phosphates. Whereas there are no end of nations that need to import them -- with Red China at the top of the list. Russia is in no position to help Red China out, either. She doesn't have any. Without phosphates, Red China's food production will drop 30 to 50% -- yes -- that far. Phosphate imports have been the magic that have increased crop yields so much. Red China is so dependent upon them that she goes to extreme efforts to recycle phosphates. Some idea of how futile that has been can be seen from outer space. Red China's river discharge is so loaded with phosphates that they eutrohpy the East China Sea// Sea of Japan -- going out hundreds of miles! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrophication The PLAN is good money after bad. It is luring the CCP into a conflict that she can't possibly win: fighting the whole world.
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Additionally, America has no anti-missile defenses for a hypersonic penetrator to defeat. America has, at best, a 50:50 shot at knocking down a solitary Korean missile. She'd need 250,000 ballistic defense missiles to have a rational shot at frustrating Putin's ICBM fleet. ICBMs just can't be stopped, not really. If they could, the US wouldn't be going crazy over the pathetic few that Kim might come to own. It's ironic, hypersonic penetrators work out better for Red China than they ever could for Russia. This makes Putin's priorities totally self-destructive. It must be transparent that the REAL strategic target of this technology is Red China. She has more atomic weapons than the rest of the world COMBINED. She's never stopped building and building and building and building and building and... This tic is obviously expressed in her other nation scale Big Projects. Yeah, they never level off. Too much is never enough. The CCP has no Off switch, nothing is ever enough.
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Basic errors: 1) Muskets became dominant by 1648 -- Thirty-Years War -- ie 17th Century. 2) V-1 is not V-2 and was ALWAYS intended as a counter-population weapon. 3) American new era cruise missiles were powered by turbo-jets; ram jets were discarded. 4) The period of ram-jets went from 1955-1965... and they were counter-bomber missiles. 5) Statistical warfare still carried on as the universal presumption was that MOST strategic weapons would be lost before they could ever be launched... they'd die in their silos// bunkers. 6) Precision munitions really meant that point defense did not work. Hardening was useless. Saddam's bunkers being the ultimate case in point. Extra armor just didn't work. If necessary, repeated pin-point strikes would power through more concrete and steel than anyone could come up with. 7) Military expenditure shifted remorselessly towards electronics. Old school military assets fell away in importance, effectiveness. 8) No nation has an air-breathing hyper-sonic weapon. Every last one is based on rockets. The Russians have re-tasked medium range ballistic missiles into air-to-ground hyper-sonic weapons. And, yes, they do work. 9) American attempts at air-breathing hyper-sonic test beds have all come to naught. Fundamentally, they can't work. The very speed you're seeking requires you to stay outside the atmosphere. The American research is with a mind towards crafting a single-stage to ballistic trajectory spy plane. A machine that will be almost as fast as orbital speed but be unpredictable, able to launch from many USAF bases around the world. It'd even be better if it could drop a single smart bomb on a terrorist prince like OBL. Because of SALT requirements, this platform can't look like an ICBM or cruise missile. 10) Putin is working from a totally different set of assumptions. His primary target concern is Red China. They are the Strategic Unknown. NATO and America have been fully doped out over 70-years time. Moscow knows how they tick. Beijing is a complete mystery. She keeps doing stuff that make no sense in the eyes of the Western military art. Moscow can't imagine why Beijing is fiddling around in the South China Sea. Moscow can't imagine why Beijing has allowed Kim to screw up Red China's strategic position. On current trends, Japan, Korea, Taiwan will all be atomic powers in four-years. 11) Moscow figures that hyper-sonic strategic weapons will intimidate Beijing. 12) Hypersonic missiles can NEVER fly undetected. They produce shock waves so intense that radar will reflect off of the shock wave -- long before the missile body is every detected. 13) Hypersonic missiles offer nothing new to the US, as Russia's astounding ICBM fleet has always been impossible to stop -- with nothing on the horizon -- even in dream space -- able to stop them from raining down. No matter how often this is stated, Putin doesn't want to hear it. He needs some public rationale for this new wave of weapons -- so as to deter Red China... America is already pre-deterred -- and everyone knows it. America has no territorial demands for a hunk of Russia. Red China DOES. She wants Siberia -- BACK.
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@Carlos You don't know the FIRST thing about naval warfare, that's for sure. Study up.
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