Boeing unveils ‘Revolver’ hypersonic missile launcher

Who says you need a bomber or stealth fighter to air-launch a hypersonic missile? Boeing just unveiled a new concept that it’s developing called the Revolver launch system.
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[@zach11241]

“This baby can take out five whistleblowers a minute!” CEO of Boeing. Probably.

[@matthewogorman7291]

Ha!

[@caelonmiller1957]

🤣🤣🤣

[@robert48044]

Interesting timing, huh?

[@zhengbq]

“This baby can take out five whistleblowers (and everything in the street block where they live) a minute!”

[@thewackymonkey920]

whahaha

[@johnc3525]

If it's Boeing it's gonna launch the doors, wheels, etc

[@mikebar42]

😂 I was thinking about that too

[@frankv7068]

What about good old leaky Starliner from Boeing, they got our astronauts stuck in space in the ISS due to countless helium leaks smdh

[@Dweller415]

😂😂😂 On the bright side, the C17 is an incredible cargo aircraft.

[@Damian-Church-NZ]

It's not gonna work... I feel for the astronauts stuck on the space station... they will probably die on reentry.. dum Boeing..

[@johnb9587]

If boeing yes, but look at the bright side….they’ll get the pronouns right 😂

[@SemGabelko]

Its main purpose is to fall apart mid flight to confuse the enemy.

[@eligebrown8998]

😂😂😂

[@Chaos96_]

😂😂😂 dudeeeer😂

[@godzillaridergamer7595]

Most of the comments on this video falls into 3 categories: 1. Whistleblower related comments 2. WW3 Related comments 3. Comments just memeing on how bad of a company boeing has become 😭😭💀💀

[@daviddughyio5158]

Not one saying how great and reliable the C17 is 🤦‍♂️ Doing the bulk of heavy lift for the Australian defence force.

[@TheRebelAllianceAreTerrorists]

you forgot to mention the comments comparing it to Russia for absolutely no reason

[@shinji1264]

Russian and Chinese bots

[@MeanLaQueefa]

The C17 was made before the current DEI leadership. Back when Engineers ran the show. The C17 is pretty awesome

[@Nivel1988]

The whole video talks about and compares themselves with China and Russia hahaha

[@v12tommy]

**slaps roof** "You could take out so many whistleblowers with this thing"

[@jeckjeck3119]

US: ''What about military targets? Can it take them out?'' Boeing: ''I mean... if you want to take all fun out of it, sure:/''

[@Soccerexgaming]

The only thing that thing is going to take are out it’s the own plane itself😂

[@dexterofficial14]

**slaps roof** **falls apart**

[@cam_8528]

Lol

[@thiagodalpizzol5949]

It looks expansive.

[@idanceforpennies281]

Oh shit. It's made by Boeing. It's going to be 6 years late, 3 times over budget and take out Des Moines by accident.

[@emm4148]

And the doors gonna fly off

[@elijahmiller912]

It's just gooberment money laundering

[@TNT_FPV]

@@elijahmiller912 *2 Chainz* true

[@rickhayhoe]

Des Moines? Then it couldn't be all bad.

[@idanceforpennies281]

@@rickhayhoe I've been waiting for this comment.

[@doodskie999]

Gotta trust boeing in their experience of yeeting things out of their airplanes 😅😅

[@amberbrown3253]

Lmfao

[@budc.8172]

"Ever wanted to launch hypersonic missiles with Duct Tape and Hope? Boeing has you covered."

[@gruntgamer4204]

Lmao, underrated 👌

[@jerickstudios596]

I can see the headlines now: "Boeing whistleblower killed in freak accident during missile testing!"

[@alestbest]

Headline: Whistleblower died in accident when 7 malfunctioning rockets fell on his house. The whistleblower was slightly injured and taken to a hospital. In another accidental accident, the hospital was accidentally hit by another 666 misguided rockets.

[@C0II0SUS.X]

@@alestbest XD

[@wolfgangpollersnr5259]

Well that happens when you sit on the missile during the launch.

[@jasonzacharias2150]

As long as everyone was vaxxed it's all good in the hood.... SAFE AND EFFECTIVE 💉

[@sirclarkmarz]

If it's Boeing watch out for falling parts and dead whistleblowers

[@Art-is-craft]

All aircraft companies have issues.

[@JZsBFF]

Let's face it. Anyone can fall off a balcony.

[@shootermcgavin2819]

​@@JZsBFF Correct, but how you handle the aftermath is different.

[@shootermcgavin2819]

​@@Art-is-craftCorrect, and how you fix them is a choice.

[@JZsBFF]

@@shootermcgavin2819 Dial 911?

[@Old.Vet.]

Rotary launchers have been used since the 70s. This is a new version of an existing technology.

[@hlmuench4212]

I was hoping to find a comment like this. Do we even have hypersonics btw?

[@atlerrdam6877]

First you need a working hypersonic missile.

[@timspiker]

It'll probably work, given they stole the design

[@Xenomorphine]

@@timspiker The US has been flying hypersonic missiles for so long, that they not just had a functional air-to-air one (the Phoenix) flying for decades, but it has been retired.

[@timspiker]

@@Xenomorphine That's not a hypersonic missile. I mean it got close, but it's not quite there. The current design is a direct copy of the Zircon 3M22

[@Xenomorphine]

@@timspiker Incorrect. Mach 5 and over is how hypersonic is defined. Mach 5 was how fast the C model of Phoenix reached (and that was just according to unclassified data). No, there is zero evidence that the US has copied Russia's attempt. They don't need to. They have decades upon decades of existing research to build designs on.

[@timspiker]

@@Xenomorphine Nope. The top speed was 4,680Km/h, it falls 1545Km/h short of Mach 5. It's actually Mach 3.8 Have you seen the Zircon 3M22? If you did. You can't tell me they didn't copy. It looks almost identical.

[@sergiotrejo7506]

this is how they're going to take out the next whistleblower

[@TennisArena365]

😅

[@JarheadCrayonEater]

Just needs one door, open or missing.

[@demx0327]

USA doesn‘t even have hypersonic missiles, tf should they fire😭🤣

[@shonuff4951]

AIM-54C Phoenix - Mach 5 (1,700 m/s; 5,600 ft/s)

[@jonathanroeder299]

My dad sat on the couch, holding a .22 revolver. Work was stressfull and included daily incarceration at a secure Boeing facility in the Kent Valley that engineers called "The Black Box". The work conducted there was Top-Secret; no information was to come out. The revolver was open; Dad had been cleaning it, but now was just twiddling with it, entranced. He spun the cylinder while looking through the bores at the TV. He told me later it was the inspiration of that gun's revolving cylinder that caused the Air Launched Cruise Missle to be designed for a rotary launcher that fit a B-52 bomb bay.

[@Mike36555]

WW3 is going to be crazy

[@jrdsm]

we will see chinese missile intercepting a flying door

[@Joseph-Colin-EXP]

First few months super high tech, final few months sticks and stones.

[@frankv7068]

@@jrdsm 🤣😂 and a leaking Starliner

[@roberthaynes664]

and WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones

[@Rickydiculus]

WW2 ended with nukes, WW 3 starts with nukes.

[@martythemartian99]

Boeing. Drops the missile out the back, and it flies back in and blows up the plane.

[@Damian-Church-NZ]

😂❤

[@fullmindstorm]

The enemy cant destroy the Boeing if it destroys itself. 🧠

[@Damian-Church-NZ]

@@fullmindstorm good thinking ✌️

[@yourmummy1985]

It is going to be the best pyrotechnic display ever..

[@shinji1264]

Where are all these dumb comments coming from? Do you think the us is Russia? Freaking bots

[@kacornish1]

You lost me when you said Boeing, LOL.

[@CobraChickenRacing]

Those are god damn cruise missiles.

[@afp259]

The door is already open...

[@starventure]

"President Putin, the Americans have developed a hypersonic weapon! What shall we do?" "Oh no, where did they get it from? I thought we and China were the only ones...who built it?" "Boeing, sir" "...Boeing? Oh thank god, you had me scared for a second there! You can relax, if it is from Boeing, it won't be going".

[@whosregis2000]

Can't defend boeing right now, but its gotta be better than Putin shopping at the north Korea flea market.

[@ColdBloodedAddictions]

​@@whosregis2000an natos flea market is what exactly 😂 fun y how billions in weapons cant work ,mercs cant work ,nato air defence cant work ,abrahams cant work yet russian shivels do the job fine 😅

[@Gazunga1]

@@whosregis2000 I can defend them,in fact couple google searcher will help you also. China sold them fake titanium with fake certificates .

[@pandibbarman]

😂 and how is your air defense working? S400 gets destroyed by 40 year old atcams ☠️🤣, no air superiority over Ukraine from the start of the invasion, over 85 t90m confirmed destroyed 😂​@@ColdBloodedAddictions

[@pandibbarman]

​@@ColdBloodedAddictions😂Just shows how little you know about military hardwares, Russian weapons work great don't they? T90m, s400 the whole world has seen the destruction of this unbeatable weapons ☠️🤣

[@hunterjones9822]

If the aircraft encounters hostile forces it also has a feature where it launches door and other parts at the enemy.

[@RisenThe]

We're not playing catch up with hypersonic tech, lol. We've had minutemen rockets for 60 years and they go Mach 23.

[@NorthernChev]

This baby will be able to strand whistleblowers in space without a way home FASTER than anyone else.

[@georgemiller151]

Boeing? The Department of Defense is going to use weapons developed by a failing, ossified, MBA-oriented, has-been company like Boeing? “If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.”.

[@MillicentSquirrelHole]

Ya' forgot DEI..

[@Damian-Church-NZ]

😂❤

[@bobjayp]

So, what do you do smart ass. Food delivery or customer setvice.

[@sultanhusnoo8552]

U watch too much propaganda and should learn abt military aviation a tiny bit. If boeing doesnt give a shit abt ur life doesnt mean it doesnt make super good military stuff....oh wait.... I geuss they mixed up the requirements abt 'deadly planes' and made their civil planes deadly as their military ones 🤣😂😅🤣😂😅

[@raedwulf61]

You forgot the DEI.

[@wildfire3440]

The thumbnail looks like a giant spider in the cargo hold holding on for life not to fall out of the plane

[@Vatsek]

The pilot had already soiled his pants. The missile hit the plane.

[@mjk9388]

As he mentions, there seems to be a growing trend with U.S. cargo transport systems to be able to launch munitions. Rhinemetal's new unveiling of the containerized launcher system for launching 126 Hero 120 Loitering Munitions works off a Military Truck and I suspect the US Marines will be very interested in that vehicle since they already use the Hero line of loitering munitions.

[@BroadcastRyan22]

Let's just say.... You're not wrong

[@mjk9388]

@@BroadcastRyan22 In the trade shows you've been too, have they talked about the option of sending those loitering munitions through the bridge room of an enemy ship to just disable the ship? My theory is you don't need to necessarily sink a ship, just keep it from reaching its target.

[@BroadcastRyan22]

@@mjk9388 yeah, you bet. I've never met a soldier, sailor, airmen, marine or guardian who didn't want MORE options when it comes to multi-domain warfare...and there are options indeed.

[@bioluminescentrobot3840]

The collapse of America is pure selfish. Feminism

[@kohl1999]

@@BroadcastRyan22 Dude I know right? I mean shit, let's waste as much taxpayer money as possible. I want all the options and then build ten each. I want trillions of dollars spent. Hoooorah!!

[@iXpress]

Human intelligence is optimal when it comes to War

[@fridaynight3181]

Usa can't lose.

[@iiyyxxnn]

Kind of the difference between everyone living and dying tomorrow but whateverr🤷🏿‍♀️

[@heraklit8.170]

"War is the father and king of all" Heraclitus of Ephesus c. 500 BC

[@juki0h391]

They are making it more difficult than it needs to be. Just fire it like a regular missile.

[@petermitchell5796]

I hope the doors don't fall off 😮💀

[@ImpendingJoker]

It's made by Boeing so it will probably fallout before it can fire any weapons.

[@Curmudgeon2]

Naa, will be fine....doesn't have any doors.

[@josephmcghee8887]

This revolver launcher has been in use on the B-52 probably at least since 1969 and the AGM-69.

[@pedros1]

So they got the chance to take taxpayers money for nothing.

[@ILikeTuwtles]

The rotary launcher in the B-52 doesn't reload itself like this one does. This one seems to allow for continuous fire.

[@josephmcghee8887]

@@ILikeTuwtles The B-52 had multiple rotary launchers. The main difference is that cargo planes with HUGE cargo capacity can be converted to the attack role which VASTLY increases the capacity to carry offensive air-to-ground missile capacity above the capacity of all designated bombers and purpose-built bombers and attack aircraft. The ripple-fire capacity is AWESOME and the effect would be overwhelming if all used together. The US capacity for precise targeting is UNIQUE and UNPARALLELED.

[@kampsie1841]

They should also bring back old gun turrets on bombers/transports, but with all-aspect missiles or AMRAAMS instead of guns

[@silentstormstudio4782]

2:37 " Freedom " 🤣🤣

[@R6AAO]

And someone once said to me that oxygen is a catalyst and not a fuel.. Where are you now?

[@felixu95]

It's neither. It's an oxidizer.

[@StirFryChicken]

New call of duty kill streak unlocked

[@silentstormstudio4782]

Revovler is itself an outdated system maybe there is better system to store more missiles .

[@stingerrgb2754]

Russia: Luanches Hypersonics on a daily base. USA: Still makes cute SGI with Hypersonics.

[@villarreal6]

Lmfao excuse me sir but that also includes these other countries like China and Russia man 😂 at least you know USA will bring them out and in bulk. Everyone hyping up china with that j- whatever bomber! What’s the use of the bimber if they don’t have flying logistics past Guam. These countries are so behind that they think they are Ken first place. We are just running circles around everyone.

[@markvilla8703]

Just turn your 737 Max's into kamikaze drones. That's all they're good for these days.

[@davidwiechecki9205]

Those 737s could carry a lot of ordinance. Question is will they make it to the Target? 😉

[@markvilla8703]

@@davidwiechecki9205 good point

[@iBackshift]

When all missiles are deployed, IF still see's threat, then, launches back door at the enema.

[@albertofranco6122]

From the thumbnail, I would've expected Boeing shows starfish to world

[@svenp6504]

LOL! Give the 5 year old who came up with this a raise!

[@alanhelton]

You just need a Boeing built anything to “fall out of the sky” to do mass damage!

[@Sundeep_x]

They gonna shoot bolts and fasteners from that canon

[@pedros1]

The ones which cost $100K for 10-pack only because they are for USAF?

[@alexacosta4751]

Bro, that looks so ridiculously deadly 😂

[@davisdesigns1153]

Damn, just think about how many whistleblowers they could take out with this baby

[@honkhonk8009]

as a buddhist, its funny asf the globemasters known as the buddha LOL. Officially my favourite plane

[@mrbr0skii923]

Well lads, looks like it's time to deploy some advanced enlightenment.

[@MattnUska]

I was a mechanic on the C17 and I have never heard it called Buddha. It’s fitting I guess but I have never heard it until now.

[@j.r.bobdobbs4572]

Maybe they should figure out how they’re gonna get our astronauts home since the crapliner is garbage.

[@cosmicpsyops4529]

You're looking at it. They're just going to shoot them home from the ISS in individual capsules since the Starliner is no good.

[@j.r.bobdobbs4572]

@@cosmicpsyops4529 🤣

[@emm4148]

Starship exists. And I think focusing on the 737 max is more important since it carries thousands of people

[@Osama018]

​@@emm4148Starship is probably a year till it's human certified lol. So they can use another SpaceX rocket, Falcon 9.

[@emm4148]

@@Osama018 starship is way more than a year off but what I meant is that in the future they can just use starship, there’s no need to make some weird plane

[@khanfauji7]

“And deliver freedom from stand off distances” spot on.

[@mikeycraig8970]

Boeing have managed to get doors to hypersonic speeds? Bonus 😂

[@Logan0x05]

Wonder how many zillions of ways this won’t work

[@dallasyap3064]

The Rapid Dragon system is already a proven and fully operational system, so this isn't impossible.

[@BCAT3089]

you're a smart man Sir. someones in the know!

[@davidlgilpatrick503]

This has been out since the 1980's..The B52's were using them...for the cruise missiles...might be an updated version...

[@snowdogthewolf]

I do believe certain agencies are leaking info on either fake, defunct or obsolete programs to gaslight US adversaries. The Yanks tend to hold their cards close to their chest, appreciating the benefits surprise affords on the battlefield. They simply don't brag, though I suppose they really have no need to.

[@anthonyb5279]

B-1 has launchers like that too.

[@HailAzathoth]

Uh not really the same thing dude. The missiles don't drop out of the launcher, they are yeeted backward out of a cargo hatch...

[@nonplayercharacter6478]

@@HailAzathoth One releases and launches forwards, the other releases and launches backwards. Yes, completely different...how again? I guess since the rocket ignites inside the cargo hold instead of igniting harmlessly under the plane, that's different. I'm sure bathing the cargo hold and other missiles in flames won't causes any problems, Boing is such a sold manufacturing company, they never make costly mistakes.

[@Gkitchens1]

The crew of starliner hearing a lock on alert:

[@nunyabidness3075]

The basic concept is brilliant. The revolver seems like it’s silly. I don’t know what I don’t know here, but racks and ramps with some labor by the crew would seem to work just fine. If that revolver fails, you gotta turn around.

[@trevorgoebel1211]

Its probably going to use the Common Strategic Rotary Launcher that has been used in B1/B52/B2's since the 1980s. Safe to say its tested technology that will work well.

[@nunyabidness3075]

@@trevorgoebel1211 Not if the cartoon was close to scale. Those missiles are BIG. Even if it’s tested, not seeing why it’s a good idea.

[@davidchang5265]

U could probably just fit more rockets than if u had to have people on board and being able to do it remotely and faster than humans is a big plus. Its just indeed risky with malfunctions

[@dreb222]

Useful design idea, but if they approach defense materiel like they do commercial aviation, it will put troops lives and country security at risk.

[@jcsaucedo6196]

It also comes equipped with side and rear view mirrors spoke wheels and a premium sound system

[@petel738]

Glad that we are just watching CGI simulation, no falling doors, gears, and wheels from the sky😂

[@frankv7068]

Boeing should focus on Starliner, doors and leaks, get our astronauts home safe!

[@emm4148]

Na they should focus on the 737 max doors and leaks to get millions of people home safe

[@richiexp2]

Ukraine never downed any Russian hypersonic missiles, not one.😂😂😂 stop the propaganda...

[@4epa1012]

Yeh, exactly :)

[@lianobarbosa8438]

😂

[@yared8771]

That's one small step for an aerospace company, one giant leap for doomsday

[@Random12255]

Launches 737 max to enemy

[@kidkique]

Does it shoot broken 737 max's?

[@pauldonvito6169]

*low whistle* 'this baby can smoke 100 whistleblowers a minute'

[@justaninja1]

I had that revolver idea a few years ago but in my design it would be in the middle of the plane and 2 hatches under the plane would open and the mechanism would lower to shoot them out. A bit more drag that way I guess and the missiles would be shot forward instead of backwards.

[@arquiricardo]

The Revolver and Rapid Dragon are The ultimate force multipliers for USAF. Astonishing tech and logistics.

[@Vasu_Polu]

Boeing makes fantastic animations!

[@emm4148]

Can’t say the same for there planes. Also what r u talking abt the quality was super bad

[@Damian-Church-NZ]

​@e😂❤mm4148

[@Visva_industries]

When all your money goes to making cool ass weapons instead of securing a door to the plane 😂

[@peridoodle2644]

The second drum reloading the first reminds me a lot of the fighter launch system in the Yamato in Space Battleship Yamato 2199, very cool!

[@shutincharlie3461]

No they unveiled a cartoon . Hahahah

[@br2266]

As long as it doesn’t have any doors on the missile itself, it should be fine.

[@tihseht472]

Ok that's terrifying. Can you imagine seeing 12 missiles maneuvering at hypersonic speeds within a minute on radar from only 1 bogey (airplane) as in a full out war you'd have more then one plane or 12 from 1 for as a preemptive first strike capability. That's sick.

[@dallasyap3064]

The missiles would be fired from a range that's beyond of the radar, so I doubt the radar is gonna see the plane or missiles until they close enough.

[@gatoslokosforever]

Ask Ukraine and nato about it, they’ve seen it in Ukraine. Today it was several airfields.

[@benjaminjones5029]

​@gatoslokosforever they should play comical music which would arrive after the explosion

[@fernandosousa4657]

They should call it "FRIENDLY FIRE" and gift it to the enemy.

[@Couchienz]

Only 4 X-51 Waverider were built so not in service and not even enough made to fill one revolver.

[@Warhorse469]

The X-51 is only are prototype no point in making large amounts of something that hasn't granted success yet. the production version they will end up using for the revolver system will be called something different.

[@Redbeastik]

if it could launch x51, then it could launch almost any other type of rockets, for example harpoon or tomahawk! :O

[@alejandromacarthy7249]

Those cargo planes are only good enough vs ragtag insurgents or poor armed third world countries vs a real army they would get shot down before delivering anything.

[@HailAzathoth]

Yeah no shit Sherlock.

[@elhoustonpitbull1630]

“Missles ready to deliver freedom” bruh 😂

[@wyaldkingdom]

You launch it and then it hits your plane at hypersonic speed when it catches up to you. Lol

[@Sunopeek]

I did not expect all the whistle-blower jokes when I clicked on this video

[@raeyner]

If it's Boeing, I'm not going. I don't think it'll be either, as a matter of fact.

[@frankv7068]

lol Starliner failure comes to mind smh

[@anthonyb5279]

And what do you know about it as a mater of "fact?"

[@raeyner]

@@anthonyb5279 Boeing can't get their public sector aviation or private sector spaceflight right. I don't have a lot of faith in their military industry if the latter two are anything to judge by.

[@raeyner]

@@frankv7068 I was screaming when I found out they got stranded on the ISS 💀💀😭

[@anthonyb5279]

@@raeyner Starliner is not stranded. Are you a rocket scientist or an aeronautical engineer? or even a pilot?

[@Dr_b_]

"Ready to deliver freedom" LOL

[@SIR_RR]

All joke aside Boeing have a different military division and this people are monitored, a low-cost hypersonic bomber is insane also Boeing not even low-key taunting China, naming it Buddha.

[@Vitamin_NOOT]

Guys it wasn’t a door that fell off that plane, it was actually a hypersonic missle.

[@alireyes8211]

I wonder how many whistleblowers this thing mulched before it made it out of the planning stage.

[@blue6gun]

By your definition of what a "hypersonic missile" is Germany had them in the 1940's. Chinese and Russian hypersonics all rely on ballistic trajectories. Again, stuff that's been around since the V2 rocket program. The US doesn't define ballistic glide vehicles or delivery systems as "hypersonic" so what they're bringing is hypersonic ram-jet and scram-jet technology that doesn't require a ballistic missile or air launched booster to get upto speed. The US hypersonics will also be able to constantly adjust course. Monopolies on technology never last forever but those folks in the defense industry work really hard to bring us all these overpriced toys we'll never be allowed to play with lol

[@amberbrown3253]

Yessss they use their own continuous propulsion 🎉

[@janpost8598]

It makes sense to launch them from an airplane though. The rocket already has height and speed and doesn't need extra heavy moving parts or even another rocket to get them into the air. It makes the missile very 'simple' in the sense that it is lighter and has almost no moving parts.

[@fallencrow6718]

The zircon is an air breathing scramjet, whit surface lauch capability. Also the kinzal can change course in flight. Stop drinking the coolaid.

[@SamuelThomson-qs8py]

spot on

[@tarikkettani3316]

Wait ... who was supposed to tighten the bolts on those hypersonic missiles ? Asking for a friend who deals in life insurance policies 😅

[@karlp8484]

It's a new design rotary bomb rack that shoots the bombs horizontally out the back of an open cargo door, and it's designed and built by Boeing. What could possibly go wrong?

[@pooferfish1227]

Uh huh, keep on thinking that Boeing's military division is the same as Boeing's civilian division. If you did some actual research, you would see that the military planes Boeing's military division makes are quite reliable.

[@Don_ECHOguy]

Boeing C-17 Globemaster is one of the finest aircraft ever built... nothing comes close to it.

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Of course not. Nothing else wants to get hit by falling aircraft parts.

[@fallencrow6718]

Born in a by gone era, in a better country.

[@meatpopsicle1567]

@@fallencrow6718 No lie.

[@simonphoenix3789]

Russia doesn't have hypersonic weapons, not unless your definition is simply anything that goes at that speed. In that case every ICBM is a hypersonic weapon, and Iraq already had hypersonic weapons during the gulf war with their scud missiles.

[@anthonyb5279]

Yeah we just let the world think we were behind on maneuverable hypersonic weapons. We have many completed systems in service for years now, we have actually had stuff like that since before Vietnam. Russia and China are way behind.

[@snowdogthewolf]

It's unbelievable how few people realize that MRBMs and ICBMs travel at hypersonic speeds of up to 24,000 KPH (14,000 MPH) and are _very_ hypersonic. Indeed, as you pointed out, Saddam's scuds traveled at a speed of mach 5. Russia and the Yanks have a near diametrically opposing method of showcasing their military prowess. Russia is boisterous and brags of the capabilities of their weapon systems (which often don't offer the performance promised). The US seems to hold their cards close to their chest, allowing their adversaries to only guess what their true capabilities are. Like an MMA match where one contestant is a braggard and focuses on showmanship while the other is feigning a limp and focuses on subterfuge and actual skill/performance.

[@notanymore9471]

And since the patriot system took out both already they aren’t a threat….😂

[@anthonyb5279]

@@snowdogthewolf The first was the PGM-19 Jupiter. In the 1950s.

[@brokenSnake]

It’s Boeing? Oh good. It’s not a threat

[@asajinjose9496]

It’s Boeing , before missiles . The door and wings will come out 😂😂

[@TheNewOption]

Russia and Chinas hypersonic weapons are the same as the hypersonic weapons we already have. The new hypersonic weapons that actually matter, are the ones that will be able to change direction in flight, that's what these are.

[@rewing4880]

Finally, a winner....What a bunch of knot heads you just smoked...

[@CL9k24a3]

Nato/usa has 0 of those

[@TheNewOption]

@@CL9k24a3 China, and Russia don't. The US have had successful tests, actually.

[@abelincoln6785]

Boeing - hahahah. Can they even get the astronauts back or will their doors fall off? Boeing is a joke.

[@anthonyb5279]

Go fuck your self asshole. Astronauts are not stranded. Boeing got rid of the guy that messed up the Star Liners and the MAXs software. I suppose you think SpaceX blowing shit up is progress?

[@pro3ification]

why making missiles boeing, when your planes do just fine lol

[@QXZ9027MKII]

“Ready to deliver freedom from a standoff distances” O’boy what a strange way to deliver freedom to others.

[@tonytrident8874]

This sounds extremely dangerous. If the pilot farts during the launches they'll get blown out of the sky😂😂😂

[@rickydeldo8596]

Even the Huthis have hypersonic missile now ^^.

[@AfroMan187]

"Boeing is designing the launcher to launch 8 Whistleblowers out the back in 30 seconds flat"

[@harunamusacloud4843]

Boeing's permanent assassin' rn "..oh no Im running out of ideas already"

[@CTCAC2000]

Boeing: Hey journalists, reporters, and whistleblowers, look what we made!

[@Mr.Deleterious]

If Boeing is building it, it will fall out of the sky. The Ramjet door plug will pop loose eventually