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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 3827512" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>The problem with hypersonic weapons is that they eliminate MAD Cold War style deterrence. Mutually assured destruction hinges on the idea that we can detect an attack and send a counter attack before we are crippled. Hypersonics Are a game changer. China’s hypersonic missile supposedly does Mach 6, or 4700ish MPH; russias hypersonic missile supposedly does Mach 10. ICBMs re-enter the atmosphere at roughly Mach 25, but we would have seen them the second they launched. A submarine launched hypersonic missile fired from say, 600 miles off the coast of California or a few hundred miles off the coast of Central America would hit anywhere in the US within 30 minutes. Chances are we would never even see them coming, especially considering that the majority of our missile defense stuff (to my understanding) is focused on the Russians lobbing ICBMs over the North Pole. Even if launched from their homeland, the missiles are so hard to detect I wonder if we would see them coming. All they have to do is take out key parts of the .gov and military and we would be crippled and no threat from a MAD standpoint.</p><p></p><p>Mike Baker talks about it in Joe Rogans podcast, it’s pretty interesting and worth a listen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 3827512, member: 35036"] The problem with hypersonic weapons is that they eliminate MAD Cold War style deterrence. Mutually assured destruction hinges on the idea that we can detect an attack and send a counter attack before we are crippled. Hypersonics Are a game changer. China’s hypersonic missile supposedly does Mach 6, or 4700ish MPH; russias hypersonic missile supposedly does Mach 10. ICBMs re-enter the atmosphere at roughly Mach 25, but we would have seen them the second they launched. A submarine launched hypersonic missile fired from say, 600 miles off the coast of California or a few hundred miles off the coast of Central America would hit anywhere in the US within 30 minutes. Chances are we would never even see them coming, especially considering that the majority of our missile defense stuff (to my understanding) is focused on the Russians lobbing ICBMs over the North Pole. Even if launched from their homeland, the missiles are so hard to detect I wonder if we would see them coming. All they have to do is take out key parts of the .gov and military and we would be crippled and no threat from a MAD standpoint. Mike Baker talks about it in Joe Rogans podcast, it’s pretty interesting and worth a listen. [/QUOTE]
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