Thats right,depending on what kind of hypersonic missiles we are talking about,is that they need altitude and midcourse stage before the terminal hypersonic stage to gain enough speed,unless its a scramjet.
And thats where US have most of their research and succsessful tests.
And using nukes vs nukes might work if its enough altitude,if not its basically nuking yourself
There are a number of reasons the Soviets went with autoloaders (many are the same as Western reasons), but training to load rounds, the least technical position in the tank (and the one which new US tankers start at) wasn’t one of them.
They wouldn't get torn apart because they wouldn't be playing by the conventional rules of argument where you even have mutually-accepted facts to base a discussion on. They'd just try and talk over the Western anchor with their erroneous version of reality, similar to what Trump and Brexit cultists do.
The Kreminals must be scared sh!tless if they're trying to talk things down.
They're going to get their buttocks branded and everybody knows it.
Unfortunately, that will go no way towards atonement for the lives lost and people affected.
Fine, intelligent Ukrainian people should never have had to cross paths with dull, bi-pedal filth.
The unwritten scientific rule of thumb is, usually 1Mt detonated over 30KM height will not have a fireball that reaches the ground (granted the pressure wave will still hit)....
If you were using a nuke for intercept only, you could easily have something of much lower yield and just need to get it in the general vicinity of the incoming missile at the right time.
regardless of the yield, you will have to worry about gamma and x rays, along with the inevitable EMP, which will be distributed in an almost isotropic fashion, effecting terrestrial and space assets. How accurately they could get a weapon like this in the trajectory (both estimated and known deception manoeuvring) would be an interesting conversation...with 10's of minutes for mainland USA, I doubt it's an issue... with this Satan2 and Europe, you'd be hoping Menwith Hill have something up their sleeve.
It's not difficult, once you recognize that the legitimate claim is the one of the people that live in a given area. N ireland is the perfect example, via popular referendum they may change sovereignty. The alternative is to undo plantation with a crime just as heinous genocide, so the only option to end violence is drawing a line in the sand right now today and saying that borders can only be changed via democratic process.
He's clearly never been here in Roscommon.....
Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
Funny how Russian Tv shows the destruction of UK, neatly taking out NI too,
in reality if they hit UK with there massive nuke we'd be gone too?
Its not just Russian media either threatening all types of armaggedon
From the aptly named shiite news website
Their intentions are clear in that they wish to destroy Ireland too. They even made an animation.
Clearly see us as an enemy. Telling us.
A Tsunami "500m" high that would pass over the "British isles"? Does he think that both Ireland and Britain are flat featureless plains much like that between Kyiv and Moscow or something?
In 1958, a 500m plus foot tsunami hit Lituya Bay, a fjord in Alaska, as a result of an earthquake some 13 miles away. The entire landmass of Alaska was not inundated
In reality with a nuclear strike, nobody wins. I'm not sure if the movie WarGames was shown in Russia, but it should have been.
Their rhetoric lately just shows they feel they are loosing and loosing badly. You would swear they are the only country with nuclear weapons and they have been shown restraint about using them.
Russia successfully launched a test of the Satan II missile and the Russian media act like they have hundreds ready to go!
Doesn't know countries don't float on water and doesn't know how tsunami's work
Yes that was April 28th:
Lavrov warned NATO on Tuesday against supplying Ukraine with more weapons, saying the US-led military alliance “is engaged in a war with Russia through a proxy.” He warned that the dangers of a nuclear conflict are now “considerable.”
Then today:
Russia is committed to working to prevent a nuclear war ever beginning, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an Italian television interview today.
"Western media misrepresent Russian threats," Mr Lavrov said, speaking in Russian through an Italian interpreter.
"Russia has never interrupted efforts to reach agreements that guarantee that a nuclear war never develops," he said.
They flip-flop daily and also depends on who their audience is. Most of the shite you hear is from the RT puppets for domestic consumption.
I;m sure if we had easy access to North Korea propaganda, the trend would be similar.
Watching a clip of US TV journalist Scott Pelley and he says the scale of destruction he has seen in Ukraine is much worse than anything he ever witnessed on previous war assignments in Central America, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Sudan. We're nearly not comprehending the sheer level of violence and destruction the Russian fascists have unleashed on their neighbouring state.
The slogan "Never again" comes to mind but here we are a few decades later and....
Have seen mention of EMP blasts taking out military assets. Pretty sure equipment can be protected against EMP threat in advance, unlike domestic equipment.
Saw this comment online under that tweet....
"We British are much like cockroaches. Invulnerable to poison or radiation thanks to our diet and drinking, violent and depressed thanks to 10 months a year of drizzle and overcast skies, insensible to the consequences of our actions as evidenced by our current government and Brexit.
You don't want to start this, Russia. We will feast on your remains after dousing them in vinegar and washing them down with cheap lager."
A couple of RuSSian boats went to Davy Jones locker this morning.
few layers of tinfoil supposedly does the trick...
military electrical/electronic equipment is usually hardened/protected against EMP, the weak point is the input and output to the system..
a bit like a lightening surge getting into a copper telecoms system, it's damage control at that point...
This can be mitigated with fibre optics as I/O, but for RF equipment, best practice is to disconnect completely any antennas and feeders.... that's assuming you know when it's going to hit.... after that, it's surge protection into dummy loads, but the signals levels and voltages of an EMP are silly, so make equipment big and cumbersome.
Commercial sats have some protection, as they need to transit the van allen belts, have sun outages, survive solar storms etc... but their approach is as above, where they switch everything off during this, with surge protection & sacrificial circuits as a protective backup.
edit: terrestrial equipment would be fooked :-D there's numerous examples or terrestrial point to point links being fried during solar bursts towards earth, if their dish happens to be pointing in the suns general direction when the earth is hit.
Silly question, would disconnecting a battery in a car be of benefit?
A cheap faraday cage constructed in minutes can protect electronics.
Might not be a bad idea to have for cars. Its hard to imagine protecting the grid.
Cars are basically already a Faraday cage
Apparently would make the damage worse. 😕 Farady cage ftw.
They show how they work in protecting against lightening strikes, but would they survive an EMP pulse?
Currently the Russians bring mobile crematoriums with them so the cannon fodder policy has not changed
After a couple of claims from a couple of Ukrainian sources, a photo from 2014 that wasn't taken in Ukraine, that was a story that quietly went away due to a lack of any evidence. Never mind the sheer impracticaliy of it and the fact the Russians don't seem to care about leaving evidence behind and a war of carnage that buries evidence anyway, at least temporarily.
Reportedly indeed. This was the Soviet built Tzar Bomb, the largest ever detonated.
50 megatons, but apparently designed to be a 100 megaton device. Look at the size of it. Now technology has come on in leaps and bounds since, but the physics remain the same. A 100 megaton device would be a very large weapon and any mini submarine that carried one wouldn't be very mini at all.
Yeah, the electro magnetic forces would be directed around the shell of the car and the interior would be protected just the same as a lighting strike
If you have sensitive electronic equipment and are worried about EMP stick it in the boot of your car (and hope nobody steals it)
Or a shipping container or an old van...
Fat Man and Little Boy were under 25 Kilotons, for comparison. That's plenty bad enough.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
And that was dropped free fall. Imagine launching that from a sub... it would be huge.
The Russians have no single missile that could take out the UK and Ireland. No doubt they have the required weapons, but not a single missile.
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