Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Hypersonic weapons travel at five times the speed of sound and are designed to hit any target in the world in about an hour. Russia and China have been leading the charge into the development and deployment of this next-generation weapon system.
The head of US Naval Sea Systems Command, Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, told an audience last month that Arleigh Burke-class destroyers could be getting a new launcher that would be designed for hypersonic weapons.
“Vertical launch system has been a real game changer for us. We can shoot any number of things out of those launchers,” Moore said.
“We’ll probably change those out and upgrade them for prompt strike weapons down the road.”
Allowing launchers to fire hypersonic missiles on destroyers would considerably increase the effectiveness of the Navy’s strike capabilities. Current weapons on these vessels include Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, is a subsonic missile that can easily be defeated by Russia and China.
There are 66 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in service with the Navy. In the last 8 to 12 months, the Navy has ramped up its freedom of navigation missions with these ships across the South China Sea, sometimes 12 nautical miles away from China’s militarized islands.
Thomas Callender, a retired submarine officer and analyst with the Heritage Foundation, said the Pentagon had spurred programs to field hypersonic weapons that can strike Russia and China. These weapons would likely be placed on submarines first, then on surface ships.
“They’re looking at putting hypersonics on submarines first because where you can get access,” Callender said. “You can potentially then put them on surface ships as an added capability for them, but the submarines would be the priority for access and the ranges you can achieve.”
The Navy has begun sea trials of the next-generation of guided missile destroyers, called USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), will likely replace the destroyers in the next five to ten years and has larger missile tubes that could fire hypersonic missiles, former Surface Warfare Director Rear Adm. Ron Boxall told Defense News last year.
Boxall said larger missile tubes allow more missiles to be stored into each cell, but can also be used to store larger hypersonic weapons.
“We are going to need, we expect, space for longer-range missiles,” he said. They are going to be bigger. So the idea that you could make a bigger cell, even if you don’t use it for one big missile, you could use it for multiple missiles — quad-pack, eight-pack, whatever.”
The Navy is working with the Army to develop a booster for hypersonic missiles, and the Army teamed up with the Navy and Air Force to build a hypersonic glider that can outmaneuver the world’s most advanced missile defense shields.
China has had several successful hypersonic missile tests in the last 12-months.
Russia announced the deployment of its Kinzhal hypersonic missile in May.
A December 2018 US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report warned that the current ballistic missile defense system in the US is powerless against hypersonic missiles from Russia and China.
US Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said last year that he supports Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin’s push to develop space-based sensors that would defend the nation from hypersonic attacks by America’s adversaries.
“The hypersonic threat is real, it is not imagination,” Lt. Gen. Greaves explained last summer at the Capitol Hill Club.
Griffin warned that the US could be falling behind in hypersonic arms race.
“In the last year, China has tested more hypersonic weapons than we have in a decade. We’ve got to fix that.”
The newest indication from the US Navy is that hypersonic missiles could be deployed on destroyers and submarines in the early 2020s to counter Russia and China.
You have to develop one before you can fire it from anything………….
and most americans are retarded, so i doubt they will develop one anytime soon lmao
That’s what Japan said once
Yeah yeah you can always quote from history, like when Palestine was part of Iran, but things change. The USA is a decaying empire it’s race is run, it’s a dead man walking.
Its still far ahead of everyone else and will be around way longer than the wasteland Russia .
Are theynreally?usa spends all of its.money abroad, and very little is invested in the country.
Americans could benefit from more school better roads and bridges, yet sadly all this money goes to industry executives.
And a meagre sum set aside for useful idiots like you!
Russia is a wasteland , ask the smart Russians that left for a decent free life elsewhere they have no reason to lie .
Again clean up your own mess in Ukraine, you stupid Ukie canuck.
Wasteland, sure how is Ukraine doing, ie the poorest basket case in Europe. Your country has been run in to the ground yet ukies like you and bacon think Russia is a wasteland. Delusional and self-deceptive must also be in the Ukrainian genes.
Even if the USA destroyed Russia China and Europe, it wouldn’t help the USA. America is rotting from the inside.
they only did it with help from german scientists operation paperclip
Operation paperclip in 1945 was more about missile technology, but of coarse it’s aim was to get German nuclear scientist also. The Manhattan project was started many years prior to that.
well americans were not as dumb as they are now lol
“of course” (as a matter of course). You are welcome, it’s my language, always glad to help.
It was the other way around. Some US analysts claimed that Japanese pilots were too nearsighted to fight American aircraft.
fighting a much weaker enemy is what US army does best…..
The only countries mighty Russia defeated in the past 70 years are Moldavia, Georgia and Chechnia. Ukraine is not defeated yet.
Moldavia was not attacked by Russia. Some Moldavian citizens of russian etnicity refused to join Romania so a civil war started. Russian forces forced this war to be stoped. Georgia was not attacked by Russia. Georgia on US orders attacked south Osetia and Abchadzia which did not want to be part of Georgia. Russia punished Georgia for this stupid move. Chcechnia is not a country. But that did not prevent CIA to army and support jihadi forces in there. Russia won again. Regarding Ukraine there is not a single proof of real Russian army in UA. If you think there is, please present it. When in 2015 Russian airforce entered Syria on Syrian goverment request, the next day internet was full of satelite pictures of Russian planes in Syria. Yet Russia is according to western propaganda 5 years attacking Ukraine but US has failed to present a single satelite image of Russian army in UA. It even got so far that one US senator was presenting photos from 2008 as a proof of Russian invasion in 2014……
Your so full of shitt I bet your eyes are brown ???
Being rude instead of bringing points to a discussion prooves it is you who is full of shit boy…..
He is the rude one and a liar .
Everything you say is delusional liar.
Shit is everything you post is shit.
Actually listen to the man. He was there, you were on the other side of the world. Also, how can you not see that the whole Mideast invasion is from a contrived event, a false flag attack from which only the Zionists in Israel have benefitted while the whole world looks at the US as bloodthirsty invaders of relatively defenseless peoples – because that is exactly what the US military did. Look at the MH-17 shootdown, the blatant Ukrainian/CIA indiscriminate murder of some 300 people just to create the illusion that Russia would do such a thing. Why did the US bomb Yugoslavian civilians? What possible harm did the Yugoslavian people do to the US to warrant the wholesale slaughter of bombing civilians? It would be like bombing New York or Atlanta to influence a vote in DC. Make the people suffer to overthrow the government when we have no influence in the first place, we are always restricted to a choice between what we hope is the lesser of two evil people running for public office while what we really need is the elimination of those “public offices” and the military and surveillance power attached to those offices.
“Regarding Ukraine there is not a single proof of real Russian army in UA. If you think there is, please present it.”
Here is the little green mongol army that invaded Ukraine.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/303aca1681e0c25454f950ebd287ec0d3dd6309608e2c3d1327b410a13a68862.jpg
Losers are afraid to show their true colors and their sorry azz faces .
You and boyfriend bacon, show your true colors, when you keep posting here instead of joining ukie neo-nazi militias to go fight in the Donbass. I.e you both are chickeshit ukui decedents and canuck pussywiped fagets, with a million pathetic excuses.
Well what a proof. Soldiers with no marks on a picture you can not tell where it was taken……..
Here is how a proof looks like … Russian army in Syria https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6ef5bdd8a7a713ae96596b72e912db626837698dddc0de260d399fb93c15ba96.gif
The irony when an anti American emo kid presents as symbol of “proof” a satellite photo made by an American company. You know what’s best for you, kid. America rules!
Yeah sure that’s the best reply from a Canuck moron, of course you would say that since canada is fake country and a resource extraction point for the yanks. Plus homos like all canadian males love to be dominated by their masters.
Thats your proof??
Not date no location data, no chain of custody!!
You think were stupid? Incredible claims require incredible evidence to paraphrase MR Sagan.
Pathetic, a picture without context, seriously why don’t you Ukrainians or ukie diaspora like you and tonto. Take responsibility for the endemic corruption, economic mismanagement, de-industrialization and fire sale of assets to Western multi-nationals, you stupid Ukrainian did it to yourselves. No amount of Russian boogeymen blaming is going to save your stupid country’s continued self-destruction.
Sure it is … . I see you offer solie proof. The people of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts have a militia from the old days of the USSR, they refuse to be ruled by the CIA proxies by coup de etat in Kiev, so they automatically become the Russian army when they defend themselves against the Ukrainian Army sent to force them to pay taxes and allegiance to Kiev.
Regarding Ukraine there is not a single proof of real Russian army in UA.
there are lot of proofs.
Why dont you show them?
Nw i do not have time, but this month is put some evidences in another topic.
you did not
Ukraine has shown just how week the Russians really are .
Yeah your pathetic ukie army got their asses handed by the Donbass militia, I guess that why ukie canucks like you wont go there to fight. Since cowardice and stupidity is genetic in Ukrainians, including the decedents in Canaduh.
You know why russia didnt beat anybody?
Its because they dont go to war dipshit!!!
What time is it bacon?
Nope, but ukie canucks like you and your boyfriend tonto are dumber then a sewer rat.
Because it has not attacked Ukraine idiot, pathetic is seeing the so called Ukrainian army get its ass handed to them by the Donbass militia. Oh yeah and America hasn’t picked a fight with an industrialized power since WW2 and even then it needed help from others. So the only great victory America has had since then has been with Grenada and Panama, pathetic, keep getting that training from that most overrated of armed forces Ukrainian idiot.
What is Canada, nothing but Yankee colony and an American mining pit.
The only thing that is more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance. Unfortunately, you suffer from both.
fortunately i dont give a shit what you think
Like I said,”The only thing that is more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance. Unfortunately, you suffer from both. haha
fortunately youre blocked :)))
What a punk! Bwahahaha
Nobody said it would be stupid to build the launcher before the missile, only those that hope the missile will not be built at all
But everybody knows it is stupid to give these contracts to Lockheed-Martin, who will take the initial budget estimate and exponentially add millions per annum, year after year. It is a graft process that Lockheed-Martin specialize in, called privatizing public monies.
You are off by a factor of 1,000. Lockheed will add billions. Lockheed bean counters understand very well how the Zionist federal reserve inflation system works.
Fair call, correction accepted! Lol
Stupid that is pretty much you and the rest of you canucks.
It’s about fuel mixture, Russia never had problem to test more dangerous mixtures and that’s why, among other things, they have superior rocketry for decades now. Jet engine design, while taken from Nazis surely has Russian fingerprint all over.
The zumwalt. The upside-down ship that can’t leave port? I’d rather have an iranian speedboat.
“USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), will likely replace the destroyers in the next five to ten years” I doubt this, 29 of the planned 32 have been canceled at this time. 2 are active and 1 is in trials. But the 155mm gun mounts have no rounds to fire, because the cost is way to high for special rounds for 3 ships! LOL
Richie Rich approves more spending :D
Russia can’t defeat tomahawks though, they can’t even defeat Israeli Delilah’s as was their recent humiliation in Syria proved
Syria only intercepted 1 Delilah out of 50 launched in the recent IAF raid. Multiple Syrian SAM batteries were completely destroyed by IAF SEAD. Also russkie GPS jamming had NO EFFECT on IAF missile accuracy. All missiles hit their intended targets except for only 1 that got intercepted. Israeli electronic warfare > russkie electronic warfare
You lie like a vermin Jew.
Flag Wohl Troll as spam. I just did. :)
Truth hurts the most. Flag me too ;)
What time is it bacon?
It’s time to fuck two MIkes in the ass, one is so brave I like to call him Concrete ass Mike
Ass, isn’t that the game you play with your ukie cousin tonoto there stupid Canadian fag.
You forgot to upvote your comment, Soft ass Mike
Angry much canucky faget.
Here’s a porn pic of Mike sucking his own dick https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6aa259a1fe46099dbb0c565c24dcfcbb1609e1858c4d383ffa446b582f34e13.jpg
Unlike you I’m sucking dick like your boyfriend tonto is doing right now to you, canuck fag.
Mike speaks so often about sucking dick he discovered he wants to suck the dick my boyfriend sucks right now….unlike me? LMAO I’m dieing!!!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/aa939d8647f69b1b234e76c181511685109f21b2240af3d630b3dee029cd1433.jpg
Typing canadian monkey.
Classy!
I didnt know you were into fucking men, are you a woman or a man? If your a woman good luck dealing with my crazy ass wife, if your a man, a curious way to come out, but i love you the way you are buddy!!
What time is bacon?
Also answer the question. 17h here.
Look buddy, you have to ask the other Mike if you want to suck my dick, he was first.
Answer the question pussy.
What question, smart ass?
Sure why not, you should be flagged for being the fagiest of human begins, ie a Canadian. Pussywiped by Yanks, zionist, wahhabis, the queen, neo-nazis, feminazis, the homo parade ect, you canucks are pathetic.
Mike, how does if feel upvoting your own comments, same like sucking your own dick?
Conspiracy, you should know you stupid Russophobe ukuie canuck.
Why you deleted your own comment Mike, you chocked with semen?
No that’s toronto tonto choking on your mini dick while you are typing.
How do you know I have a mini dick, do you keep a ruler in your mouth?
Actually he is quite correct. The Syrian Arab Army does not have the decades of trillions of dollars in “US military aid” that has been handed to Israel. The F-16s that Israel uses to constantly attack Syria and the F-15s for air superiority were handed to Israel. The SAA cannot compete, they are not as competent using the bewildering array of Russian military equipment that is necessary to defend Syria. Israel takes a chunk at a time. If the Pantsirs do now work seamlessly with the S-300, then Israel can take out a Pantsir or S-300 battery and cost the SAA money that Assad does not have to replace. S-300 missiles are too expensive to use shooting down IAF guided munitions. Assad will lose every war of attrition as long as the US continues its unlimited supply of munitions and guaranteed security to the IAF. This situation will not last forever. We the people of the United States of America are becoming aware that the eschatology used to justify “defending” Israel is a hoax. We are not going to forever pay taxes to fund the military-industrial-congressional-security complex that serves Zionists.
Where is the proof that he’s correct? I haven’t seen it. What I have seen is that he’s a habitual liar spamming these threads with disinfo. If you claim that he’s correct. Provide proof of it. I can provide a lot that he’s not.
Be sure, if syrians or russians were eliminated 95% of enemy missiles, they would show the remnants of those missiles. Until today i saw only satellite confirmation of sucessfully IL attacks and i saw destroyed buildings, weapons.
Missiles shot down over Syria. https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/106389/03/1063890359.jpg https://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ScreenHunter-643.jpg
Yes, these are the 2-3 shot missiles. Where are the other hundreds?
Are you pulling this out of your *ss or is Debka file easier to reach? If your going to throw numbers around you could at least provide a link.
Man you are one ratty looking kike.
you’ve been added to @joshgladwin’s twitter list “Nazi Filth” congratulations
They have already shot down your silly tomahawks several times in Syria, silly at-right white trash fagot.
I am sure you meant “alt-right”. If fact you are replying to a “left-wing liberal” which is a socialist living on welfare collected at the point of a US government gun from productive people who actually grow food and make things. Please do not misuse the term “white trash”. “left wing liberals” are not usually “white trash”. Left-wing liberals usually get their money from government in some fashion either through welfare or some high paying make-work government “job”. “White trash” are typically people who had to work hard for a living and produce useful things. I grew up dirt poor in Arkansas so I was regarded as “white trash” by my country peers who had tractors with rubber tires and starter motors, electricity to their nice homes with concrete floors, doors that locked, screen doors, windows that opened and closed and tin roofs that did not leak and some people even had air conditioning. Not us. Education meant a lot something to me. And to Booker T.
BREAKING: recent israeli strikes in Syria was unprecedented and the biggest since 2018. More than 20 regime/irgc military positions, SAM batteries, and warehouses completely destroyed. 50+ regime/irgc troops eliminated. Only 1 Israeli Delilah missile was intercepted out of 50 launched. Many Syrian S-75 and S-125 launchers/radars completely pulverized. Russkie GPS jamming had literally NO EFFECT on Israeli Airforce missile accuracy. Israeli electronic warfare completely suppressed Syrian and russkie radars! IAF once again winning!!!
russkie electronic warfare < Israeli electronic warfare
What a morronic argument!! Its like saying my dad is bigger than your dad.
Your arguments are worst than my 6 year old neice’s.
Pathetic rocket nose pathetic!
Go back to killing defenseless women and children hooked nose kike coward.
you’ve been added to @joshgladwin’s twitter list “Nazi Filth” congratulations!
How about providing a history of targets destroyed in Syria from F-16s launching over Lebanon. Most of us do not know what the hell is going on in Syria, who is shooting at whom, whether the F-35 is as bad a joke as it seems, etc. If you know what weapon systems are being used and how effective they are, please do write out the facts for me at least. I want to know.
IDF has all those facts! Whether they release them is up to them. You can look at Debkafile for now :-]
In other words, you don’t really know. I thought you might be serious, very disappointing you are not.
IDF also has lots of diapers a size too small..
The zumwalt is a great concept vessel, but there are challenges US will have to overcome.
As great as your concept of teaching English. Which is not much.
You tried to tell: learning.
So, shut up, you idiot!
First the US has to work out how to build a functional hypersonic weapon. Even if they had a functional prototype, and they don’t, it would take at least a decade to become deploy.
Dream on…you are far behind. By the time the US rolls out its first generation functional hypersonic weapon, Russia is producing its second generation hypersonic weapon…and the S-500 has been put in place in mass.
If only they have them…
Old news , usa has better yet .
Yeah in you pathetic ass ukie.
Bacon and tonto are posting diatribe in sync with each other, the must be a married pride canuck couple of trolls.