tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1917670405924684286..comments2024-03-28T18:32:43.699-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: An interesting discussion of hypersonic weaponsPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-56241897485341351102017-10-06T08:56:58.289-05:002017-10-06T08:56:58.289-05:00Of course if the demo/comms(BIRM) hadn't spent...Of course if the demo/comms(BIRM) hadn't spent decades stalling anything to do with anti-missile defense technology in this country, we might have functional lasers and rail-guns and who knows what else that might work for defending against this threat. 0007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-89310568580388025562017-10-06T04:57:30.295-05:002017-10-06T04:57:30.295-05:00Quentin said...
Besides, hypersonic travel has civ...Quentin said...<br />Besides, hypersonic travel has civilian uses . . .<br /> <br />Supersonic travel didn't, not long, anyway. Take a lesson here: there are no viable flying cars.urbane legendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699110758399432397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-65047901062968689282017-10-05T11:01:32.447-05:002017-10-05T11:01:32.447-05:00Don’t forget: some ideologies *cough cough* Shia I...Don’t forget: some ideologies *cough cough* Shia Islam for one *cough cough* see a world-wide global war as NECESSARY before the Twelfth Imam, their version of the Messiah, can return to earth from the well he’s hiding in. To them, WWIII is a feature, and necessary, not a thing to be avoided.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-8611904400157750702017-10-05T10:54:12.923-05:002017-10-05T10:54:12.923-05:00So the US wants to stop other nations from being a...So the US wants to stop other nations from being able to shoot down its nukes. Good luck with that.<br /><br />Besides, hypersonic travel has civilian uses and once that gets out, good luck preventing people from militarising it.Quentinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-16753465014899037202017-10-05T10:21:18.747-05:002017-10-05T10:21:18.747-05:00Yep. "Rods from God," first proposed as...Yep. "Rods from God," first proposed as Project Thor. A telephone pole-sized heavy-metal conical rod will impact with the energy of a micro-nuke as a lot of all that kinetic energy is converted to heat in an instant.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13296988746956477216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-4049967439937518192017-10-05T09:38:52.043-05:002017-10-05T09:38:52.043-05:00If the US military is serious about unstoppable we...If the US military is serious about unstoppable weapons then that secret drone shuttle is researching orbital kinetic energy weapons. You don't nuke em from orbit you drop rocks (actually prepared penetrators with guidance). Who holds the high orbitals holds the world.mark leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05664390381774473222noreply@blogger.com