Shouldn't we be at least kind of worried about the Russians developing a nuclear scramjet cruise missile?
The last time we even thought about doing something like that was pic related 40 goddamn years ago with nothing ever being built. There have been lots of improvements in materials so it's a more viable a concept in 2019. I know the Russians aren't crazy so I doubt they'll develop it as a first strike platform and risk disrupting MAD but couldn't even a handful of these fuck up our carrier defense screens?
They already have faster missiles for hitting carriers. This is meant to wipe out city centers.
Samuel Martin
No, because MAD is still a thing. One Boomer on a second strike mission with a complement of SLBMs is all it takes for your entire country to go to shit.
Noah Evans
Being scary is Russia's only defence strategy They are a nation of alcoholism and doomsday weapons
Isaiah Collins
>Shouldn't we be at least kind of worried about the Russians developing a nuclear scramjet cruise missile?
No, it's not for carriers. It's for avoiding castration by the upcoming wave of US space based defences (and the new Standard II).
Regular deterrence, no big deal except to the extent it imposes costs on Russia's decaying MIC.
Jeremiah White
If it's detectable at all. At low altitude, the warning may come too late altogether.
Leo Sanchez
Cool now we'll just wait for the nation renown for building an anemic number of military weaponry builds more than 10--I mean all they need to do is achieve enough saturation for some manner of decapitating strike, right? Shouldn't be too hard.
Isaac Gutierrez
It is purely a propaganda weapon. Vatnikistan already has weapons that can reach Washington from Siberia or from beneath the waves. This adds no capability that they don’t already have but vatniks like it as a mental dildo to make themselves feel good.
Elijah Martinez
why? we arent enemies with motherland you fucking boomer
Elijah Turner
>le russia is the savior of the white race Fuck off, vatnik.
Well a prototype exploded several days ago, killing 5 scientists and a bunch more military personnel and releasing an unknown amount of radiation in the air and water. So I wouldn't worry about it yet if I were you.
Trump tweeted that the US has something similar and more advanced.
Carter Hughes
>motherland
Whose motherland? Not mine. I have 0 connection to a country ive never been to. I didnt realize all americans were born in Moscow; is that what you imply?
Zachary Mitchell
>trusting trump He's an idiot.
Andrew Gray
Insider sources: - It is not scramjet, it is a turbofan powered by a steam turbine powered by a miniature nuclear reactor. - The explosion was of a radioisotope engine for space use.
Kayden Morales
It doesn't matter if you can't detect it. Your first indicator could be NYC being vaporized and that would be totally irrelevant. The SLBM's are still safe and will be sent on their way ASAP. Attacking us with anything is suicide.
Landon Jackson
Russian missile is not supersonic, literally a meme tomahawk.
Exploding and killing people is what it’s supposed to do, user.
Oliver Wright
LET THE BOYS BE BOYS
Justin Stewart
considering the fact that it blew up on the pad, I'm really not worried about it.
Lucas Ramirez
Russia has had full MAD capacity since your parents were born. With just what they have they can make the entire west collapse into radioactive rubble filled with nothing but corpses and those unfortunate enough to have survived the initial strike. And this even if NATO pulls off an all out attack first. Some new weapons like this isn't going to make shit any worse for you in the event of all out thermonuclear heck, at most (and IF development is successful, a rather laconic "if" that one) it could allow them to keep MAD capacity at a somewhat lower maintenance cost.
And in return they will themselves get eradicated by the MAD retaliation if they start nuking, and that too is even if they get the drop on NATO.
We don't have treaties allowing us to know what they have, so it's hard to tell. The USSR used to fall behind on missile production starting from the blueprint phase by 2-4 years. Russia now is coming out with platforms and missiles a year or two in advance. Communism gimped Russia, but not anymore. It's amazing. You managed to make a post that was wrong in every conceivable way.
Kayden Cook
>Be Burger >Develop a launch platform for mach 8 flight vehicles. >test flights begin 2021
>Be vatnik >develop a launch platform for mach 27 flight vehicles >Already operational since last year.
Why are we still laughing at them? Shouldn't we all crawl in a corner and start crying. This comparison just hurts so much.
> the evacuation comes amid unconfirmed reports that 10 employees of the Arkhangelsk Regional Clinical Hospital, situated in the region's capital, who had been involved in treating the victims of the explosion have since gone to the Federal Medical Biophysical Center in Moscow for unexplained reasons. That is where three individuals who had suffered injuries in the blast subsequently went for treatment. At least two of those individuals have reportedly since died, adding to the five immediate fatalities from the initial accident.
Russia has no hypersonic missiles, and lacks the materials technology to produce them. Anyone that says they have them is lying, likely for domestic Russian propaganda to try to convince the Russian people that Russia is strong.
Jeremiah Martin
Come the fuck on, we never abandoned SLAM. We just stopped talking about it and didn't build a lot.
Entire regions user. You can use 2 of these to fuck Europe.
Grayson Butler
Either way, we who survive get our post nuclear dream.
Camden Allen
>couldn’t afford the armata >couldn’t afford the SU-57 >couldn’t afford to even retrofit the dated on arrival kuznetsov so it doesn’t have to rely on a personal tugboat let alone repair it >sub fleet is in complete tatters and the rest of the VMF isn’t doing much better >their brand new meme wunderwaffen blew up on the test site killing a few people and contaminated the surrounding region with god only knows how much radioactive isotopes >etc. etc. If anything it would be more of a danger to Russia itself, but hey if it makes a bunch of vatniks cream themselves at the mere thought of Russia being stronk then what could I say?
Levi Smith
>Shouldn't we be at least kind of worried about the Russians developing a nuclear scramjet cruise missile?
No. Russia is only developing new weapons to keep us from acting like assholes all over the world. They only make a few weapons and have no interest in a buildup.
The S-400/500 is one of their trump cards. They know America only really has air power, so sell S-400s to countries who could be threatened by the USA and all of a sudden our power is a paper tiger. Russia's eventual goal is to sell missile defense to as many nations as possible, so they no longer have to knuckle under to the USA. Russia isn't interested in global domination. Just announcing a weapon makes the warmongers in the USA freak out and demand we blow even more cash on our bloated military budget.
Ayden Murphy
>Trump tweeted that the US has something similar and more advanced. I'm sure we do, but completely unfunded and overbudget if we ever do. We no longer can even build a new fighter that doesn't cost a trillion dollars to develop.
Brayden Miller
>tfw you will never stalk in the Nenoska Test Site
