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Russians made a big hoopla about using this yesterday. Turns out the only unique thing about this is that it's launched from planes and can carry a nuclear warhead

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Do you not understand how impressive that is?

Word.

Do it yourself if its so easy faggot

Air launched hypersonic missiles are retarded. The plane they're launched from can be seen hundreds of miles away and the instant you fire it off, everyone will know where it is because you can't hide and terrain hug like you can with subsonic cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk.

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It isn't. The US has launched nuclear warheads from f35s.

So the US is stupid then?

Which is impressive.

But isn't this missile different? As in achieves greater speed with the same payload as anything we've used from a mobile in flight station?

yup and the plane that fires it flies at Mach 3

>you see fast missile
>you die anyway because you can't intercept fast missile

It has pretty damn good range. You could hit Madrid from Helsinki if it's launched from a high-flying bomber.

>Turns out the only unique thing about this is that it's launched from planes
holy shit I'm stealing this bait

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>russian media claims

Even if I give them the benefit of the doubt it is still only one missile with a small warhead, hardly able to desroy a singe small building.
And they are prohibtively expensive and the russians have like 4 of them and just one single aircraft modified to use it, piloted by the only pilot qualified to operate this highly experimental missile.

>pic russian back bone of their nuclear thread.

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Its a missile that flies at a flatter trajectory, that's basicall all there is to it.

Well are we all going to have trouble stopping it is the real question.

they just destroyed an underground Soviet milspec ammunition bunker built from high quality, vintage 1960s reinforced concrete capable of surviving nuclear war.
if you are not impressed, you are not a professional.

Its really not. Air launched missiles are hardly a new thing.

For us.

How much does one of those babies cost? Depending on it my country would be quite interested in buying several.

No the US has been launching air to ground missiles from planes since the 1950s.

They have like 4 of these and that's a high estimate.

>Well are we all going to have trouble stopping it
Such a weapon is completely useless unless it is used en masse and combined with coventional missiles as follow up.
It's only merrit is that it could sneak in a warhead in a surpirse attack (optional a nuclear one).
If it is a conventionally armed weapon it still only hits with very moddest destructive force, comparable to a small dumb bomb.
If it is nuclear armed a full blown nuclear exchange is the result, making it's usage a moot point.

These thing don't really change anything in terms of ballance of power.

If it fast and can't be stopped then what it is aimed at definitely matters, even if you only have a small handful.

And the ones launched from minutemen, etc?

If it's accurate then it could be used to take out power plants, dams and bridges even without a nuclear warhead.

So what you're saying is that they now have the capabilities to use it in surgical strikes that we cannot stop.

Do you not see how this is impressive?

I mean, one of those missiles can destroy an aircraft carrier and all that it has inside, even if Russia only has 4 of those it means they could theoretically inhabilitate 4 entire US carrier fleets. Say goodbye to force projection if Russia produces several more of these.

if it was impressive you wouldn't have to keep nagging everyone about how impressive it's supposed to be. reminds me of reddit/youtube clickbait that tells you what to feel

>now
Again thats nothing new.

You're polish so in essence you are scared of russia as you should be. As such, you are biased and your response shows it.

But this capability that is being showcased as of right now is new from Russia. Are you being daft on purpose or are you being paid to be?