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re: China now claiming they have ability to demolish US aircraft carriers
Posted on 6/1/23 at 9:36 am to brett408
Posted on 6/1/23 at 9:36 am to brett408
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Hypersonic missiles are way overrated. They can and have been shot down.
During controlled testing, yes. They've also been missed.
And those are single missiles. I don't think we've ever shot down multiples during a test, although if we had we hopefully wouldn't be making it public. A good college friend I talk to on a regular basis is VP at a missile defense contractor, and all he can say is "hitting a bullet with a bullet is difficult".
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They look big and bad, and they do have numbers, but their technology is still severely lacking.
Nobody has said otherwise, but it also doesn't matter in certain areas, and hypersonic missiles is one of them. The tech needed to shoot one is a couple of orders of magnitude simpler than the tech needed to stop one.
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Posted on 6/1/23 at 9:47 am to Flats
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The tech needed to shoot one is a couple of orders of magnitude simpler than the tech needed to stop one.
This is true. Generally, any defensive technology is more difficult, as a countermeasure, to prove effective than offensive capability. However, the Ukrainians did shoot down a few hypersonic missiles with the Patriot missile system, which is late 70s tech, and it was operated by Ukrainians.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:08 pm to Flats
Bud, they’ve been shooting down “hypersonic missiles” in Ukraine with Patriots almost every night for the last week with a 100% success rate. The Russians and a Chinese run a joint program on hypersonic missile technology which does not bode well for the Chinese missiles. The patriot batteries have been the target and the Russians have yet to destroy even a single launch vehicle(Patriots employ 8-12). They did minimal damage to one with falling debris from a missile intercept and it’s slated to be repaired in Ukraine if it hasn’t been repaired already.
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