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No, not when we need charities to support ex soldiers.
Pentagon tests hypersonic weapon.
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No, not when we need charities to support ex soldiers.
The hype was on the speed of the weapon and it's not all that fast. Wiki seems to think they are $30 million each but I've no idea what year those dollars are and whether it includes a share of the R&D or what.
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When the bloody Americans (**** Yeah - I've seen too much Team America) learn to distinguish between allies and foes when firing weapons let alone firing advanced missiles I'll rest a little easier 
When the bloody Americans (**** Yeah - I've seen too much Team America) learn to distinguish between allies and foes when firing weapons let alone firing advanced missiles I'll rest a little easier
im all for it hopefully it will have some other uses in the future for space exploration or something
These are designed as an alternative to cruise missiles. Which are ~600mph and due to the flight time missed binlanden on at least one occasion. These are designed for quick kills anywhere in the world against moving targets, terrorist, biological, nuclear etc.
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No they are not.
Spend money to develop weapons-save casualties=save money.
Not spend money to help ex and injured soldiers and get them back into work-save money in the long run, put more money back into the system 'tax from working ex soldiers', have more money to invest in better weapons to save casualties in the first place.
Hence spending money on helping ex and injured soldiers makes the same sense as developing weapons but they don't seem to want to do both.
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I'm not saying I'm against the technological advances dude, far from it - like you say the potential applications probably far outreach anything you or I could possibly imagine.
I still wouldn't trust a trigger happy American though
Yes I am well aware of what they are intended to replace but I am not in awe of their speed.
So cancel develop to save money to develop equipment a decade down the line after another thousand or so skip divers are dead and many more injured.
Nope still don't see your point. You don't stop development(depends what your roll on the world stage is).
It's not like they couldn't do both, or save money else where.
Nope still don't see your point. You don't stop development(depends what your roll on the world stage is).
It's not like they couldn't do both, or save money else where.
I am, as I'm assuming unlike ibcms they aren't space going and will be much cheaper than tridents.
It's A bit like trying to compare aeroplanes to the shuttle. The shuttle goes faster but does that stop the blackbird being awe inspiring on a speed front. They operate in different mediums.
Charities in the UK supplement and work in partnership with the NHS, it isn't an either/or situation. The US are initially excellent in their treatment of wounded servicemen, although in the past this has not always been the case. The Dept of Veteran Affairs deal specifically with Ex-servicemen benefits and they too work with Charities and NGO's as is the case in te UK.
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The Americans seem to be twitchy about the new anti carrier missile the Chinese are developing.
Yes but an SSBN and a hypersonic cruise missile both have a very similar intention i.e. to deliver ordnance from somewhere on the surface to somewhere else on the surface. The Shuttle and the SR-71 do not, in fact the Shuttle isn't really fast at all; it uses enormous rocket boosters to get up, has hardly any resistances when mooching around, and then mavity to get back down.
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Also not very good in a lot of situations of long term care, friend of mine needs two new knees from being injured when ejecting, the best the US authorties can offer is pain management.
In the UK its not ideal when charities need to help, too many cases where soldiers are left without what they need until someone raises hell in the media, if we can spend so much on weapons we should also give soldiers every care they need.
I disagree, you can't compare a suborbital rocket/scramjet rocket to a ICBM and therefore such a test weapon is impressive.
Although it looks like they may have some modified trident 2 missiles to carry out such attacks. But are pretty scared that other countries can not distinguish between a nuclear and conventional warhead.
That would be an epic fail, fire one of them to kill a terrorist or whatever and start a nuclear war.
Anyway big more info on attended purpose here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike
Although it looks like they may have some modified trident 2 missiles to carry out such attacks. But are pretty scared that other countries can not distinguish between a nuclear and conventional warhead.
That would be an epic fail, fire one of them to kill a terrorist or whatever and start a nuclear war.
Anyway big more info on attended purpose here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike
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or did do they need something to mount their "in development" bunker busting nuke (or a very powerful kinetic impact head) on that's not an ICBM that they could use against a certain heavily fortified position that is capable of withstanding conventional bombardment?
or more simply and less conspiratorial, they need to assassinate Taliban/al Qaeda/various other people and sometimes Intel is short notice and this is quicker than a jet or predator drone?
