The Rise of Hypersonic Missiles

[@SnoopyDoofie]

7:43 Yeah, we'll use Javascript to guide those missiles.

[@bangonkali]

@Alex 🤣

[@Doryopaint]

@Alex No CSS is better

[@NHLfreak87]

"this.palette" will get those darn Russians.

[@TheTeknus]

@Alex have you tried looking at npm repo for node-missile, www.npmjs.com/package/node-missile

[@hkr667]

@Alex Only if you make it with MS Frontpage

[@paulmckenzie5155]

3:00 oh man I hate when my Minuteman 3 ICBM is off by 400 feet and totally negates the effect of the nuclear explosion

[@1QuebecSierra]

Paul McKenzie, lolol.

[@bennylofgren3208]

All sarcasm aside, if you are trying to take out a missile silo or underground bunker complex, a 120 meter CEP can indeed be the difference between success and failure, even with a nuclear warhead.

[@paulmckenzie5155]

@@bennylofgren3208 if that's the deciding factor, then radiation will probably be much worse, or you could just send more than one or an additional payload from the minuteman

[@WeatherManToBe]

@@bennylofgren3208 this is why ICBMs are not targeted at other nation's silos or fortified bases, but at major cities, air bases, and naval bases.

[@SECONDQUEST]

@@paulmckenzie5155 The USA doesn't like MIRV weapons, and the hardened bunker is meant to withstand indirect nuclear attacks. Independent closed air systems, deep underground and so on.

[@joshr7781]

"first rocket boosted glider flew in 1928, when German engineers tried to extend the range of the V2 rocket.". The V2 was invented in 1943.........

[@Enos666]

semi-true, mass production started in 1942 but that doesn't mean prototypes weren't flown in the mid 30s, though I am curious as to where he got the 1928 date from

[@hwg5039]

@@Enos666 He means 1938 I believe

[@thatonewaguy7841]

And the Weimar Republic likely wouldn’t be allowed to create this type of weaponry

[@thomaspropst2705]

Stopped watching right there and came to the comments to make sure I was not alone. They may have been mostly developed by 1942 but were not used in the war until September 1944.

[@TheDarkestofCubes]

@@Enos666 everyone makes mistakes, irs fine if an information is wrong.

[@davidsgamesofficial2932]

Can't wait for this kill streak in the next call of duty

[@bapet5614]

Lol 😂

[@Allfaxnocaps]

Seek help.

[@joshuas3897]

9:17 "Vehicles moving so freakishly fast." ..shows hang glider

[@minigundozer14]

thrustSCC: am i a joke to you? and SCMAGLEV: am i a damn joke to you?\ donald trump being an absolute jerk death toll:

[@chrisding1976]

You: something related: ajsjjs something else related: sjsnnfejjsjs hey have you heard of this guy trump? I really don’t like him: sjfhejjjf

[@pacus123]

Please explain how the US is "ahead" when it doesn't field a single hypersonic missile while both Russia and China field a number of different ones?

[@SECONDQUEST]

They "field" hypersonic weapons. None of their tests have been successful. They just say "ye we gottem"

[@mezelta]

@@SECONDQUEST The avanguard is already in active deployment by the Russian strategic missile forces

[@ultra78721]

@@mezelta Sure they do !

[@artruisjoew5473]

We’ve been flying X51 since 2010. We don’t weaponize it because we don’t feel the need to. Btw compared to the truck sized missile Russians have, X51 is an air launched platform that can be dropped by most US bombers. There is also the X37 up there ready to drop some rods if need be.

[@MrFlatage]

@@SECONDQUEST No US citizen is going to fall for a anti American troll hiding behind a fake name ... US is helpless and defenseless ... “Right now, we’re helpless,” Republican Senator James Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee stated under oath before a US Congressional Committee on these operational hypersonic weapons out there right now. “We don’t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us'' 4 Star General John E. Hyten, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, one of 10 Unified Commands under the Department of Defense under oath ofcourse. Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, when asked if the US was really behind Russia and China on hypersonics, said flatly: “Yes.” Oh and every test successfull. Cos the real military experts and US general brought the tracking data from NORAD and NATO sources plus satellite images. Hmm what will you do? Rant and ramble some more propaganda when people have free internet can fact check with the highest sources in the land of the free? Well it's either that or the Gulag for you right? ;-)

[@marcdunord]

what a patriot! the USA have been stuck with their hypersonics for more than 10 years and are NOT ahead technologically in this dept. Solving the protracted friction-heat problem over a 3000-km+ flight is a physical impossibility according to the west. All existing US hypersonic missiles (SM-whatevers) burn off after only a few minutes at 5-mach+. The US has not solved the i/o and the friction heat problem and has no idea yet how to build hypersonics with comparable range and comparable accuracy.

[@LukeTEvans]

the russians probably just dusted off some old research from decades ago. those scientists from back then had solutions for everything

[@Wargamer_Asian]

You are right ✅️ brother.

[@tstob3467]

Imagine hearing "this attack is sponsored by skill share" when your city is being nuked.

[@shivamkumarshrivastava5182]

That's what you get for not taking the subscription. 🫠

[@mopippenger7373]

7:28 just casually 200 miles off of San Francisco some accurate missiles, huh?

[@JKTCGMV13]

I thought something felt off.

[@kalebbruwer]

So inaccurate it even launches from the wrong location.

[@dananorth895]

Their not going to let on how accurate they are.

[@dananorth895]

If a professional shooter misses the target once are you safe?

[@ctcGamerz]

Fun Fact: these missiles are gonna be used to blow the world up when putin emigrates to mars

[@Icy-ll5ie]

Pls don't woooosh me because I get the joke but that's not a "fun" fact if you think about it...

[@aks9545]

@@Icy-ll5ie r/woooosh

[@Allfaxnocaps]

Border security

[@TheBaBaTV]

Biased Hypocrite. The world will blow up due to USA … history fact USA is the first to drop an atomic bomb on a country, they are the aggressors ! Russia is intelligent/level headed thinking. criminal Biden is fail, kills soldiers, kids in afghan !

[@DesiJugaarDIY]

Yes if Putin can drop a nuke at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and move to moon can also do this and move to Mars .

[@Hierachy]

recently, Russia tested the Zircon, launched from the admiral gorshkov for testing in Russia's north-west, above the Ural mountains, 500km at mach 8-9

[@jakexd5524]

2:58 that isn’t a minuteman 3, that’s an old titans missile. It carried a much larger nuke, but was also more dangerous due to it using very toxic fuel and is less accurate than the minuteman.

[@otheraccount5252]

Ah yes, the old hydrazine stuff.

[@kaydenchan7093]

Titans have more range tho

[@Sum_Guy]

I've always thought missiles worked that way. Blame movies

[@into_the_void]

Us government : launch minuteman ! Launch technician : inserts 8 inch floppy disk ... ( fun fact : USA announced in 2019 that they would start phasing out the 1970s minuteman launch network tech to something more contemporary.)

[@MrFlatage]

Yea all any nation needs to do ... Fly to the US. Load a big magnet in a pickup truck and disable every missile silo in the US with ease. Quite hilarious.

[@deepbloo580]

"Hypersonic Cruis[sic] Missile"

[@ultimateloser3411]

How to know if you survived a hypersonic missile: You heard its boom

[@ManishPatel-wb5cq]

Now India is also included in this race with successful launch of hypersonic missle😮

[@wavecentral]

7:45 - "Humans would have to hand over more control to computers to respond to nuclear threats." WOPR - How about a nice game of chess?

[@obitouchiha9027]

Skynet is coming!

[@yaz0333]

5:53 **angry flat-earther noises**

[@chasereprogle8735]

Lolol!!👍

[@tousifzaman9392]

"Highlight of the video" US is ahead with 0 active deployments where Russia has 2 active with another on test

[@waterdrinkingexpert6797]

The US has fielded multiple hypersonic platforms far before Russia and China. In 2011 they completed their first successful hypersonic missile test. The US also launched the X-51 waverider from a B-52 bomber.

[@MrFlatage]

@@waterdrinkingexpert6797 India just fielded a million spaceships! See anyone can make up some BS. www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104467/x-51a-waverider/ A demonstrator that after almost 10 years now is still a experimental program is what it is. Fact. See how the real official US goverment sources are right and your fake news is wrong? Yup that will keep happening no matter how much you try.

[@gabenewell3955]

@@waterdrinkingexpert6797 those aren’t hypersonic missiles

[@waterdrinkingexpert6797]

@@gabenewell3955 They most definitely were

[@davidste60]

@@waterdrinkingexpert6797 - You're wrong, by their own admission they have not fielded any. Find a single quote of the US making such a claim.

[@Hijackerrr]

Yes i would be really pissed when i miss my target by 120 meter with my 20 megaton rocket...

[@kiriakiparou485]

Very nice video! I really appreciate your job!

[@into_the_void]

There's also the bhramos 2 being jointly developed between Russia and india

[@srikanthk9651]

Count us in #india successfully tested hypersonic missile

[@sagardyenchilwar8762]

It was a technology demonstrator Though we are very close

[@sagardyenchilwar8762]

@Shree CORONA singh Virus We are really close about 4-5 yrs as stated by DRDO Scramjet engine tech {core technology} is successfully tested till date some avionics and other equipments are under development

[@rtsoccerplayer]

Damn that budget for missle development... it's cheaper for us to just get along 🤷‍♂️

[@leonesperanza3672]

Bruh russia and US have 15k nuclear weapons. Just 100 of those denoted earth can enter unto nuclear winter that would kill billions. Let that sink in. Overkill

[@tacomeme429]

It really isn't unfortunately :( we could spend the entirety of the united states's GDP and we still wouldn't get along

[@serghw]

WHAT?!?!?!?!?! USA ahead?!?!?!?!?!? Seems like americans live on outer planet. We have 3 types of hypersonic weapons in service already, while USA still testing something)))

[@cesarguzman3204]

They are dumbs, russia is very ahead in this tech

[@slightlyamusedblackkidfrom9153]

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[@lordoftheshower4697]

10:20 "America is the furthest ahead in developing hypersonic weapons". Meanwhile Russia has already completed its first hypersonic missile, called Zircon, in 2018

[@ab3040]

5:53i hear the screams of flat Eather's

[@bunbunson27]

I wished we can strap flat earthers to hypersonic missles

[@maximilianorodriguez4484]

Bunbun Son we all would

[@MrFlatage]

Round earth conspiracy crazies scream as loud ... Sad!

[@maximilianorodriguez4484]

Bunbun Son we found a flat earther to strap on to one of them his name is Michel Plateeuw

[@MrFlatage]

@@maximilianorodriguez4484 Wow even after you edit you fail to end a sentence or write someones name ... lmao! So you are clearly uneducated. Yes educated little children know science proved the earth is not flat or round at all. It's an oblated spheriod. ;-) You cannot even spell 'missles'. Haha!!

[@lukassalota1269]

So Russia used one hypersonic rocket against Ukraine... that happened

[@dmt3339]

9:29 For anyone that was wondering, the lift to drag ratio is how far an aircraft can fly with the altitude it has. Example: lift to drag ratio of 1 to 1 means it flies forward one foot for every foot of altitude lost. So with 10,000 feet of altitude it can fly 10,000 feet forward. Modern high performance sailplanes have a lift to drag ratio of over fifty to one. with 10,000 feet of altitude it can fly 500,000 feet forward or around 96.5 miles.

[@artruisjoew5473]

No you are thinking the optimal glide slope. L/D is a characteristic of the air foil design, and it definitely is not directly translated to the glide slope.

[@dmt3339]

@@artruisjoew5473 L/D determines glide ratio (slope as you called it). It is a direct relationship. If L/D goes up your glide ratio goes up and vice versa.

[@artruisjoew5473]

@@dmt3339 L/D is only a contributing factor, the other major factor being form and parasite drag, and of course the weight of the aircraft. after all you cant expect a lighter aircraft to behave similarly to a much heavier one even if they have the exact same air foil design. L/D is only specific to the air foil.

[@dmt3339]

@@artruisjoew5473 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-to-drag_ratio As it turns out, the glide ratio, which is the ratio of an (unpowered) aircraft's forward motion to its descent, is (when flown at constant speed) numerically equal to the aircraft's L/D. L/D and glide ratio are two sides of the same coin. Oh and a heavier aircraft identical to a lighter one will have the same L/D or glide ratio, it just achieves that glide at a faster speed.

[@Canadian_Ry]

Shouldn't the turbine at the outro be spinning the other way? Great episode!

[@marabooq7150]

maybe its a knife rotator?

[@artificialintelligence2653]

Not only America, Russia and China but also India. India is developing the Shaurya Missile on its own and BrahMos NG & BrahMos II with Russian help. All of these are hypersonic missiles.

[@firstcynic92]

2:58. That's a Titan 2 missile. Accuracy? With megaton nukes, who needs accuracy?

[@awesomefacepalm]

But what if you want to detonate a 5Mt hydrogen bomb in someone's face from 6000kms away?

[@hi-fidude6670]

@@awesomefacepalm Their face would be burned off if it misses by 20 miles lol

[@awesomefacepalm]

@@hi-fidude6670 yeah but if he is a really annoying guy and you really really want to hit him in the face?

[@hi-fidude6670]

@@awesomefacepalm Idk. Laser??

[@Fecbar]

Accurace is only needed for a first strike capacity

[@jonahd5195]

Just out of curiosity, how are you connected to RLL 1, besides the name?

[@amayasnep]

7:28 Looks like someone dropped San Francisco in the middle of Humboldt Redwoods State Park. 👀

[@carolmoore]

Thanks for educating people!

[@full_regalia8649]

Exactly what the world needs now: more powerful and faster missiles

[@tacomeme429]

I can't tell if this is ironic or not

[@realmtraveller]

2020 US: we are the most ahead in hypersonic missile technology: 2021: Russia and china complete successful hypersonic missile tests

[@nuukas7717]

10:11 ???? How if russia already have both types of These missiles

[@Likeaworm]

The russians are rushing the development and deploying hypersonic systems with existing platforms. Where the US differs is the implementation. They plan on replacing all anti ship missles and most cruise missle systems with new hypersonic versions. This along with mosaic warfare will give the Americans an unprecedented warfighting capability that the world has never seen.

[@MultiBattlecry]

That still means Russia is ahead, as they already have a missile that can be laucnhed.

[@artruisjoew5473]

We’ve been testing it since 2010 with the air launched X51. Nobody made a big deal out of it. Technologically the US is certainly ahead, and putting a warhead on it really is not that far a leap ahead. Also what do you think the X37 doing up there, spreading love and hugs?

[@just_some1575]

@@MultiBattlecry Yes they are ahead, but only because they rush speed. America does it slower but more powerfull. And as we have seen in world war 2, speed is good in the begining. But power will eventualy catch up. (think about japan that rushes all islands in a couple of months, while america let them capitulate with 2 bombs...

[@MrFlatage]

@@Likeaworm The weak to very weak US military? Can we see proven US sources only to what you are claiming please? Sounds like fake news and propaganda against truth and fact in the USA. “Right now, we’re helpless,” Republican Senator James Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee stated under oath before a US Congressional Committee on these operational hypersonic weapons out there right now. “We don’t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us'' 4 Star General John E. Hyten, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, one of 10 Unified Commands under the Department of Defense under oath ofcourse. Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, when asked if the US was really behind Russia and China on hypersonics, said flatly: “Yes.” I'm gonna go with truth and fact under oath by people who are real experts. Not some vodka fueled lie against the USA.

[@MarxistKnight]

Hypersonic missiles “typically fly between 1-5 miles a second” - um, I don’t think so. That’s up to 18,000mph. They’re not THAT fast. That’s more like space shuttle speeds.

[@theonlyari]

So, wait, let me get this straight... The faster a missile goes, the more accurate it is? 🤔

[@1293ST]

well, it depends but faster missiles leave fewer opportunities for error but the influence of errors is greater because of the increased velocity. Looking at the fact that these missiles are guided and have onboard capabilities to correct course with little moves they are more accurate. Also, an object with velocity has to say it very, very simply more mass because of said velocity and is thus far less prone to external influences i.e. wind etc.

[@theonlyari]

@Pichkalu Pappita no.

[@WeatherManToBe]

The faster a missile goes, the more energy it can lose making adjustments to it's course.

[@米空軍パイロット]

Aero engineer coming through. It's not about speed. Hypersonic missiles just have more maneuvering capability, because they are true aircraft. Ballistic missile warheads tend to just be cone shapes with little to no maneuverability once released from their launch vehicle.

[@hkr667]

@Pichkalu Pappita Dude, seriously? Multiple countries have landed (or crashed :p) a probe on an effing asteroid in space. You seriously think the rotation of earth is still a factor for us?

[@e.h.w7680]

Hello love your vids! Keep up the good work

[@namaenonaimokutekimonai]

I came up with a proper name for this semi-autonomous response system, give it a name "skynet")

[@jackfitzgerald2955]

Handing over early missile launch decisions to AI is how skynet rises to power....

[@velociraptor1596]

You Forgot Indis's DRDO (Hypersonic program). Check that out.

[@asterope1604]

Good to know that humanity devotes more time, money and resources in weapons, than education, poverty, health. What a peaceful bunch we are

[@magisterrleth3129]

"A Minuteman III has a CEP of 120m." I mean that's big, but the business end is a thermonuclear warhead. It could have a CEP of 10km and still do what it needs to do.

[@Argentvs]

Not really. The mass destruction radius is small, shockwave is larger and thermabaric effects. But after 1 km in most modern warheads, people inside buildings (not next to windows) would survive and radiation after is not that big issue except in the first hours to 7 days due irradiated dust. You can walk with minor protection up to 400 meters of the detonation point. Imagine nuclear warheads are mostly targeted first to enemy ICBM silos, major military bases that cover several sq kms as first strike. You need to land over or right next to the silo, or it will still be operative since they are under heavily hardened underground bunker cylinders. And 400 meters of total destruction on a giant military base will not make much since the place would have been evacuated minutes before the attack and the place will be recovered in days after some debris cleaning and washing, so you better hit well near where it matters so it can't be operative in short time, liking evaporating the main runway and leaving a major crater that makes it more sense to make a new one than repair. If you miss the runway, fast built shelters will be up in days and planes operating there back in a week.

[@magisterrleth3129]

@@Argentvs You're describing tactical nukes. Supposedly battlefield weapons by merit of being small enough to be strategically useful. But the Minuteman III in particular has a warhead with a yield of 350 kilotons, 23 times the yield of Little Boy. That's a city killer, and definitely would be effective for destroying pretty much anything above ground past much more than one kilometer.

[@Argentvs]

@@magisterrleth3129 M78 is 350 kt, M-86 is 300. Still the damage radius is 450-600 meters. The rest is heat and shockwave that will damage soft construction and kill people. Tactical nukes are much more smaller. Modern ICBMs don't rely on brute yield. Cold WAR ones had multemegaton single warheads due their high error area. So they targeted the same targets with multiple massive nuclear devices. Modern ICBMs use smaller warheads with high accuracy so one ICBM can attack several independent targets. Hence why is 10 times less nuclear weapons today and with much lower power.

[@GiantSandles]

Right brain: Wow this seems really dangerous maybe there should be some controls o- Left brain: Missile go pyeww

[@dmeads5663]

I wonder what kind of weapons the US has that we don’t know about.

[@ELTIGERBLOOD]

Apes with stealth camouflage

[@michaelevans8697]

‘Oh, Silver tongue suits and cartoons they rule my world. Singing, it’s high time for hypersonic missiles’

[@beechcraftkingair3799]

Russia hasn’t proven they had anything lol. We had the Phoenix AMX missile in the late 60’s and we weren’t afraid of filming its entire flight, not just bits and pieces like Russia.

[@utaMAN12345]

what are you on about, the phoenix isn't a hypersonic missile, its an air to air supersonic missile the same as those russians R-33 which is also old, beside we retired the phoenix the same time the navy retired its only launch platform, the F-14

[@CAInandAIbel]

Going that fast, would it even need an explosive payload? Rods from God top at 10 times the speed of sound. EDIT: 8:00 yeah, this.

[@খেয়ে]

India already done today😂😂...🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳😍😍😍

[@dortiapewpew7445]

DF-17 is what you need to check out.

[@akashkrishnnat8982]

Yaa add india to that list

[@ajaxjaiswal3442]

You can't ask them to add India to the list. When we do something big we don't need acknowledgement. Lion's roar doesn't need anyone's acknowledgement, it is what it is by virtue of its power not anyone's pity.

[@Wanking_wanker]

They sure do rise, but they do fall down

[@joebates640]

3:45 Spelling error, just pointing it out.

[@cavedahonesty105]

Amazing the AMOUNT of time, thinking, effort and money that humans DEDICATE to each other's destruction.

[@paulmcgachy8273]

*Sam Fender enters the chat*

[@joebates640]

guitar starts playing with malicious intent

[@seanbrennan3576]

Was looking for a sam fender comment

[@Pacheenee7]

"let machines control retaliation."...ive seen a movie about that. Purity of essence.

[@askhowiknow5527]

“It’s not a missile at all” is a blatant refusal to use the English language

[@motmontheinternet]

lol yup. It's strange that people don't know what the word missile really means.

[@stocky9218]

Well, are ya gonna tell me bro?

[@stocky9218]

motmontheinternet what’s it called

[@motmontheinternet]

@@stocky9218 traditional ICBMs are rockets that are weaponized. Any weaponized projectile is a missile, including an arrow, bullet, etc. The first missile ever invented was someone throwing a rock. Hypersonic gliders are part rocket (launch stage/stages) followed by part glider. The entire thing is still a missile because it's a projectile weapon.

[@MrFlatage]

@@motmontheinternet Ok so show us a ICBM being ... thrown or shot from a cannon? dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/projectile

[@HammaneggsAirborne]

*uses kph to describe mach speed* "Um, where are the freedom units." *next scene uses miles per second* Yay, consistency!

[@suraj.1889]

Robert Hamman 😂😂😂

[@User-wh1mh]

So many people saying they are early. I don’t think you are early if you arrived after it was uploaded.

[@gitanoespana7694]

Pretty sure if aliens were observing human life on Earth they would consider us a pernicious infestation worthy of eradication.

[@JUPITER69966]

India is now also in that group

[@gabrielevan148]

USA : *Buys 50 Falcon 9s from SpaceX*

[@vasistasuparna5342]

Who's here after India tested hypersonic missile??😁

[@hiennakai4904]

Great video. The background music is really nice; where did you get it from?

[@IvorMektin1701]

You showed a picture of a Titan when talking about Minuteman III.

[@martinsonderegger5903]

a question about defense. the problem is that speed to interception and also adding to this the heat build-up in the front which interfere with the aim for intercepting missiles. Furthermore is a gun defense too short in range to prevent an impact from at least the shrapnel. What about a combination of both (probable a cost problem) - Intercepting missile to gather speed then exploding in front of the missiles releasing a con of (tungsten) shrapnels. It could intercept them earlier.

[@test-mm7bv]

russia is ahead in this technology they already demonstrated functioning weapon systems us is just working on prototypes now - it will take a couple years at best for field deployment us wasted almost 2 decades on useless wars (and associated technologies) in the middle east on behalf of israel and ksa

[@artruisjoew5473]

LOL, X51 has been flying for 10 years. Just because we don’t make a big deal out of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

[@artruisjoew5473]

Jericho it’s not a secret that the US has been playing with air launched hypersonic, air breathing vehicles since 2010. You are just in denial.

[@MrFlatage]

@@artruisjoew5473 Yes you are in denial. We all know it's a demonstrator they cannot make operational cos it simply does not work. US is helpless and defenseless against hypersonic weapons. And it's behind. Take it from a military expert your denial cannot defeat. ;-)

[@artruisjoew5473]

@@MrFlatage lmao sure, "just a demonstrator". reminds me of that aluminum grapefruit they call sputnik, which burnt up by the same time vanguard 1 was sent into orbit. vanguard 1 is still up there btw. country like russia and china love their publicity stunt. don't worry though, a country in a demographic terminal decline, with a average male life expectancy in the low 60s, and whose technical education discontinued since the 80s, is not gonna last another 5 years. we'll all be laughing as russia implodes in the next decade. and the best part is, all we gotta do is absolutely nothing.

[@zolikoff]

Russia has always been ahead in actual hardware tech, they just have worse programming and deployment success.

[@jesus1111jqiudd]

Alien arrives Alien: whatd that Man:hypersonic missile Alien: chuckles Man:why Alien: this is exactly my colony average speed

[@fuzzcut1]

ah sick! a new weapon that should've never existed. cant wait for Hiroshima: hyper sonic edition

[@razgrz92]

Quite the interesting topic I actually learned something today, keep it up!

[@3User]

Check out covert cabal for detailed videos on tactical warfare and military technology, he's much more accurate and informative than this channel

[@milutinke]

Russia is furthest in hypersonics, they have real working hypersonic missiles and most experience in rocket science. They laready have Avangard and Kinzhal in active service, and the Zircon is almoust complete as it is going to be accepted to service soon. They have also developed and tested hypersonic air-air and ground-air missiles for Su-57 and Pantsir S1/2/SM. The US is going to need at least 10-15 years to catch up, because Russia started their research back in the 2003.

[@bluntcabbage6042]

The USA certainly can but choose not to as there are downsides to hypersonic missiles. Subsonic missiles, like the ones used by the US, can travel at _much_ lower altitudes. This allows the missile to remain undetected for a lot longer. Faster missiles have to travel higher, thus making them more visible to sensors and enemy ships/units, thus giving them more time to prepare. Subsonic missiles like what the US fields are also lighter by several orders of magnitude. This means that many different ships can use said missiles without much issue, meanwhile, hypersonic missiles need to be mounted on bigger/stronger vessels and cannot really be mounted on lighter crafts. Subsonic missiles are also typically much cheaper, therefore making it less of a problem if one gets shot down. What's more, subsonic missiles can evade and maneuver much faster and with a lot more ease as the slower speed puts less stress on the missile while changing direction. Hypersonic missiles have more trouble rapidly maneuvering and evading defensive weapons as the high speed makes it more difficult to turn.

[@ichan83a]

Russia already has them. What are you talking about? The Avanguard?

[@BigBoss-ps6vk]

Typical US: let's invest 2.6billion $$$ to blow up people fast :)))

[@AICW]

$2.6 billion is not enough, actually, considering this video is wrong: Russia and China (and India, too, the video forgot them) already have these missiles ready to go. The U.S. is way behind on this technology.

[@wetokebitcoins1769]

I'm guessing nukes being off by 150m isn't such a big deal. Everything is still gonna get vaped.

[@bennylofgren3208]

No, it is definitely a big deal if you are trying to knock out a missile silo or an underground bunker complex. A 150 m CEP can mean the difference between success and failure, even with a nuclear warhead.

[@springbok4015]

1:30 “at less than the speed of sound, also known as mach1” - Not really. Mach 1 refers to the speed at which sound travels, doesn’t refer to speeds below. Subsonic = Mach 0 until Mach 0.8. Transonic = Mach 0.8 until Mach 1.2 Supersonic = From Mach 1.2 until Mach 5 Hypersonic = Mach 5 until Mach 10

[@Capt.Rankin]

SpringBok01 What’s after Mach 10?

[@earlspencer7863]

@@Capt.Rankin Light speed!

[@dareksolski1551]

@@Capt.Rankin high hypersonic

[@earlspencer7863]

Actually High-Hypersonic up to Mach 25. At these ranges thermal effects from air friction become a primary concern in engineering vehicles.

[@bennylofgren3208]

Supersonic in your table should be from Mach 1.0, and subsonic should end at 1.0. There are speeds that can be classified as both supersonic or subsonic and transonic at the same time, they overlap.

[@phillydcinematics2543]

Missile: Sped Supersonic missile: *S P E E D" Hypersonic missile: "yes"

[@mirandela777]

you are wrong, is not "yes" is in fact "Da ! "

[@4ltrz555]

**laughs in North Korean**

[@manofcultura]

I imagine super high altitude zeppelins will become a thing. Armed with AESA radar arrays with the power and size to rival ground based radars and airborne lasers and anti ballistic missiles.

[@MrFlatage]

Yea US tried that and kept crashing them into the ground.

[@arjunaqosim7734]

USA, Russia, China. = Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia. George orwell's 1984 anybody?

[@JoffesThoughts]

Can't believe you missed the opportunity to call this "The rise and fall of hypersonic missiles".

[@daemon.running]

The minute man III has an accuracy of 120m... It's a 15 Megaton Nuclear warhead. I think 120m is fine.

[@icyknightmare4592]

This is why the battleship will probably make a comeback later this century in a fleet defense role. Existing point defenses and missile interceptors just aren't fast enough to reliably defeat these weapons. A dozen AI directed railguns on a nuclear powered hull is a really good way to stop incoming hypersonic projectiles. Nothing is going to survive hitting a cloud of shrapnel at a closing speed of mach 20+.

[@cadocacacius3806]

How much force would it take to destroy or disrupt a hypersonic missile?

[@DatBoiWolf7]

This is what hit Lebanon. Initial fires were set of for more precise targeting. Most likely

[@Torus2112]

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." -Trotsky

[@user-si3gu8pm6j]

What happens when hypersonic weapons are matched against orbital kinetic weapons in combat?

[@MrTmenzo]

Orbital weapon would be faster

[@hrishabhmarkad5429]

India and Russia already deployed BrahMos which is supersonic cruise missile. And now developing BrahMos 2 the "Hypersonic version"of it and is expected to be tested this year. And India already tested it's hypersonic technology demonstration vehicle last year..

[@sciencehacker7541]

Hypersonic cruise missiles are great aircraft carrier killers

[@emailsharedbyafewpeople4105]

You forget about the missile submarines. Even if a country is wiped out, their subs can sort out what happened and retaliate. So a country still has deterrence even with hyper sonic weapons

[@timeisrunningoutforthebeast]

Thanks

[@northerninfidelable]

USA is not the furthest ahead.... Russia has 2 operational weapons, China has 1.... USA has 0

[@northerninfidelable]

@@CS88528 operational means that they have finished all R&D, surpassed a number of tests, trials and units are trained on deploying the weapon. In addition there are designated initial deployment units that have gone to several groups within the military and they are active and could be put to use whenever the powers that be feel like it. In this case the misses are in the launchers and the glide vehicles are integrated on their MIRV equipped ICBM. Any other status would indicate a lack of readiness or technical or logistical difficulties still exist.

[@deleteduser87]

This missle is 2000 kilometers away from your current location and is closing fast

[@ezra5788]

The US is catching up to Russia in hypersonic technology but you say the US is ahead? How is someone catching up to a competitor "ahead". Russia has operational Avangard glide vehicle, Kinzhal ALBM and just recently successful tested a hypersonic Zircon cruise missile. The US is still trying to develop them. Russia is ahead, China is in second place and the US is in third place. Even the pentagon openly admits this

[@christopherlynch3314]

120m CEP is plenty for a Minuteman II. Close enough for nuclear weapons!

[@Wickedreptiles]

SKYNET PEOPLE! Terminator wasn’t a movie it was an look into the future!

[@nickpn23]

When I was in a probation hostel back in 1977, after being released from two-years in prison, these three guys ran everything that went on. Allegiances had to be carefully handled, you might be called to serve on behalf of one side or the other. It was pathetic, the crudest sort of muscular force dominating everyone else in the house.