Pentagon tests hypersonic weapon.

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Hitman_Leon

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Well as the title says,

The missile was launched from Hawaii and reached its target on a Pacific atoll 2,300 miles (3,700km) away in less than half an hour.
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Hmm, should they not be concentrating on paying better benefits to injured soldiers and helping ex soldiers with education and training in the current climate instead of developing weapons of no further advantage against the current 'enemy'.

Or did the Taliban develop a hypersonic camel or technical that needs shooting at...........
 
Let's just stand still and not develop technology. It's not like military tech has ever been used outside the military.

At the same time lets make all buildings boring pre cast concert squares and never commission art, statues, parks or anything else. After all they just cost money. Be better putting that money into the bottomless money pit.

It's also like countries, don't have anti missile defences capable of shooting down cruise missiles, our weapon of choice to knock out infrastructure in perpetration for air and ground attack.
Or even just a surgical strike against a one of target rather than all out war.
 
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Glaucus said:
Let's just stand still and not develop technology. It's not like military tech has ever been used outside the military.

At the same time lets make all buildings boring pre cast concert squares and never commission art, statues, parks or anything else. After all they just cost money. Be better putting that money into the bottomless money pit.
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That's not my point, in the US there is a pressure at the moment to try and get the military to spend resources to help ex soldiers and injured ex soldiers and help them get into jobs also, when the figures add up it would save the US more money in the long run helping these guys than supporting them in the way they are currently.
 
That's not fast at all?

These are our nuclear missiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II

Yes, that's more than seventeen times the speed of sound. At maximum speed they would make that 2,300 mile trip in 10 minutes. This is why our nuclear weapons system has no credible alternative; it gives us a strike capability that's unmatched by anything else.
 
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And what has that got to do with stopping development, which will help the armed forces and put them at lower risk.
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Its not that at all, developing weapons so there are less casualties is good, but they should also get the soldiers injured and the ex soldiers the help they need, that would save money in the long run and therefore leave more money to develop even better weapons and reduce casualties further.

See the point?,
 
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