re: Beijing mocks America, their 21,000mph nuclear-capable missile a 'new blow to the U.S.'

China is just blustering.

Yep. They are trying to get everyone to fold under pressure, like Taiwan, so that they win without having to get bloody.


They don’t have a problem spending blood or treasure to win but they don’t appear competent enough to do it when pure human wave attacks aren’t an option.

Wish they’d just go ahead and get it over with and nuke our major cities

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They won’t do crap they need us. They’re just taking advantage of a weak US.

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Presumably you think Russia was doing the same several years ago right?

Biden ain’t going to be in there forever. And those are just specific examples of hardened areas which you have to hit to disrupt command and control.


Could be referring to any other major or regional power China may be trying to muscle.

Alien tech

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How close do you suspect they need to land a nuke guy?

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1969, I stood on a ridge overlooking a dry lake bed on Edwards AFB, California. A major handed me a set of binoculars. I was High School Freshman. My Dad and the Major pointed out the target. Five foot plate with a red flag attached......about half a mile away. Soon we were joined by a dozen Air Force and Contractor Vehicles.

A truck with a PA speaker started a count down. 4, 3, 2, 1 impact .....A cloud of dust .... Major comments ten feet off target. They gathered to talk for a moment then left. Going home I asked Dad ..."And what did I just see?" "Another failed test." "Of what?" "That was a missile test, fired from a submarine 200 miles from here in the Pacific. We are trying to hit the target." "And what will this missile have on it?" "Nuclear warhead." "Who cares if you are off by ten feet?" "There will be things we have to hit directly ....we can't miss."

That was 1969 .....more true today than ever before.

I mean, is it worrisome, yes. But them having range is nothing new thanks to the Clintons.

We also have our own systems that are being trained on and coming fully online in the next year. So this is really just a more money please puff piece. The glide bodies for one of the systems are currently going into mass production in Bama.

We're probably going to see a new round of space treaties soon.

So we’re back to MADD politics? Instead of ICBMs we are now hyper-sonic.

We have given or allowed the tech to be stolen. Imagine 5-10 of these hitting all the dams in China by the US. Cities, lives, and infrastructure would be wiped out for decades.

They’re watching, Wazowski, always watching.