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Anonymous wrote:Hypersonic weapons are not being used here. They are designed to go into orbit and circle in orbit around Earth for a while before being directed downward at a target. This makes them hard to track and predict compared to older ICBMs.

You’re wrong.

Russia has be using Iskandr-M hypersonic missiles since the first day of the war. The one used Saturday to destroy the military facility in western Ukraine was an air-launched variant previously unused outside of prototype testing.

It destroyed an underground weapons depot with $400 million dollars worth of US supplied weapons, including virtually all of the recently delivered switchblade drones, as well as most of the stingers and javelins. The missile attack also killed ~ 700 Ukrainians and foreign volunteers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hypersonic weapons are not being used here. They are designed to go into orbit and circle in orbit around Earth for a while before being directed downward at a target. This makes them hard to track and predict compared to older ICBMs.

You’re wrong.

Russia has be using Iskandr-M hypersonic missiles since the first day of the war. The one used Saturday to destroy the military facility in western Ukraine was an air-launched variant previously unused outside of prototype testing.

It destroyed an underground weapons depot with $400 million dollars worth of US supplied weapons, including virtually all of the recently delivered switchblade drones, as well as most of the stingers and javelins. The missile attack also killed ~ 700 Ukrainians and foreign volunteers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hypersonic weapons are not being used here. They are designed to go into orbit and circle in orbit around Earth for a while before being directed downward at a target. This makes them hard to track and predict compared to older ICBMs.

You’re wrong.

Russia has be using Iskandr-M hypersonic missiles since the first day of the war. The one used Saturday to destroy the military facility in western Ukraine was an air-launched variant previously unused outside of prototype testing.

It destroyed an underground weapons depot with $400 million dollars worth of US supplied weapons, including virtually all of the recently delivered switchblade drones, as well as most of the stingers and javelins. The missile attack also killed ~ 700 Ukrainians and foreign volunteers.

Anonymous wrote:Hypersonic weapons are not being used here. They are designed to go into orbit and circle in orbit around Earth for a while before being directed downward at a target. This makes them hard to track and predict compared to older ICBMs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read that Russia may have used a hypersonic missile to hit a target in Ukraine.

Do we have a rough idea of how many of these missiles Russia has?

My understanding is that the US and NATO does not yet have hypersonic missiles. Is my understanding correct?

Do Russia's hypersonic missiles in any way change the balance of military power? Is Russia's ability to strike at Western Europe and the USA greatly increased by these missiles?

Lastly, how did Russia succeed in developing this advanced technology? Did they put all of their eggs and money in one basket, pouring resources into hypersonic development while under-resourcing the rest of their military?

This is like the 10th post you've made about hypersonic missiles in the last week.

What's your malfunction?

This thread already has 46 pages. Can somebody please point me to the particular page(s) that discusses hypersonic weapons? Thanks.
This is my first post on this subject. You have mixed me up with somebody else.

Since the prior poster has so politely informed me that this topic has already been covered, I'll sift through the other posts on this thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read that Russia may have used a hypersonic missile to hit a target in Ukraine.

Do we have a rough idea of how many of these missiles Russia has?

My understanding is that the US and NATO does not yet have hypersonic missiles. Is my understanding correct?

Do Russia's hypersonic missiles in any way change the balance of military power? Is Russia's ability to strike at Western Europe and the USA greatly increased by these missiles?

Lastly, how did Russia succeed in developing this advanced technology? Did they put all of their eggs and money in one basket, pouring resources into hypersonic development while under-resourcing the rest of their military?

This is like the 10th post you've made about hypersonic missiles in the last week.

What's your malfunction?

Anonymous wrote:I read that Russia may have used a hypersonic missile to hit a target in Ukraine.

Do we have a rough idea of how many of these missiles Russia has?

My understanding is that the US and NATO does not yet have hypersonic missiles. Is my understanding correct?

Do Russia's hypersonic missiles in any way change the balance of military power? Is Russia's ability to strike at Western Europe and the USA greatly increased by these missiles?

Lastly, how did Russia succeed in developing this advanced technology? Did they put all of their eggs and money in one basket, pouring resources into hypersonic development while under-resourcing the rest of their military?

Anonymous wrote:Can somebody explain why we are seeing Russian death counts (and other losses) but not Ukraine? Is it simply b/c Ukraine is putting out the numbers but Russia is not or is it a military advantage thing...Let the Russians know their losses but not the invaded's losses?

I know we are seeing towns go under Russian control and I assume there's a civilian and military death count there but would it be too depressing for those still in Ukraine?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:So the smaller anti personnel switchblade drones are great for targeting political targets. Those thing are able to bypass perimeter security. I imagine we will see assassinations of high ranking Russian officials in Russia in the coming months.

They can go into russian airspace? I thought they were only used for defense over Ukrainian soil.

In other news, what's the implication of a hypersonic missle use?

The smaller switchblades are about 5 pounds and easily concealed- ie easy to get into Russia itself. Just need someone with the will and ability to pass as a Russian.

The hypersonic missiles are just hard to knock down. There big use would be against aircraft carriers. They really do not change anything- does not seem like there are many, it’s not like the Ukrainians are knocking down the regular missiles and they most likely cost a lot. I imagine the fuel needs are huge with a big supply train.

You don't know what you're talking about. Switchblades can go about SIX MILES and FIFTEEN MINUTES from their control. No one in Russia is getting assassinated, unless you mean right at the border.

Wow are you that clueless? I guess it would never dawn on you to take a switchblade to Moscow? Most Ukrainians speak Russian and many have traveled in and out of Russia. It would be easy to get these drone to Moscow or any place in Russia. With a switchblade you have a 5 mile strike radius. If you had a few switchblade and wanted to take out Putin during his little talk at Luzhniki Stadium he would be gone.