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I call it. “Keeping them on their toes”! Ruzzia and Chyna lie about what their said weapons can do. While we USA deny, downgrade, stop talking about, such said, -- weapons. Then BOOM, here they are. HELLLLO Boys, wanna join the party?! Ruzzia & Chyna: Pikachu face! 😂☠️
@@vlhc4642 Actually if memory serves the "weapon" itself functioned perfectly in the original test. The problems arose from the powered part and like the detachment system on the carrying plane.
@@pegasusted2504 Dude you need to be able to release it to test it. And no there were no instances where any test of the HGV was successful, the only "succeeds" was the one time the solid rocket booster worked.
Primary mission is to ensure everyone fits in and can wear the shoes of their choice, ah, and also use the boy/girl bathroom they feel on that minute/second!@@paulbarclay4114
In numbers, sure. Not in capability. Today's weapons and ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance) make the US military machine much more effective. @@paulbarclay4114
the F-15 is extremely adaptable you'd be hard-pressed to find a role that the F-15 can't do for a military . I mean what weapon can't an F-15 carry does anyone know ?
@@vlhc4642 lol spoken by someone who has no clue. the ones currently being fielded are either fake and aren't really hypersonics, or are basically ICBM-only.
bro look up the x 15 it was a manned plane from the 60s that was faster than the khinzhal which is really just a 30 year old air launched icbm... the v2 rocket from ww2 was a hypersonic missile do you think if the nazis from 1945 showed up today and started threating us with v2 rockets would you be on here fan boying over them? probably@@vlhc4642
@@Trule2456 If you were listening you would have noted that he repeatedly called out the fact that Arrow NON-NUCLEAR, thus not a weapon of mass destruction, with a few hundred kilos of HE at most.
@@ronjon7942 While being a ski instructor I was also telecommunications operator for a tactical nuclear weapons battalion. So I have some background on the subject of deterrence and WMD as well as the fun parts of being a soldier. That little backhand cost me nothing, and the tankies need a few here and there. I'm happy to oblige.
Bro, literally everyone should watch your show. It’s easily the best military/technology reporting I’ve ever seen. I mean Simon is great and all, but your stuff cuts right into the root and the source. I’m always sharing your videos with a good ole “I told ya so”
@@Dornumbo I believe I was talking about Simon Whistler. He’s got a couple channels, and a few dedicated to doing in depth analysis on military hardware.
The other advantage of air delivery is that you can beef up the stated range of the missile by including the range of the aircraft. Just ask the Kinzhal
@Pax.Alotin the ablative plating is designed to use atmospheric drag to slow down the re-entry vehicle. a warhead doesn't need to slow down or protect the people onboard but Santa can go the speed of light so he obviously doesn't use Newtonian physics
OUTSTANDING report Alex...Was waiting to see your update.. i still see Russian bots talking smack about the ARRW...Now the US can test out the SM 6 BLOCK IB against an actual Hypersonic Glide Body target.....OUTSTANDING..👉🏻
If its like the work of de patriots ? the dam in zaphorizia have or aswer no????? hum the video of the x101 lanching the decoys its very (4stars) great.
@@pedrohpires6608 15 million per missile. ARRW....tough choice Uncle Sam has to make if they want a few to hold them over.. of course that was during all the failed tests, not sure what the price would be now for say a 100 of them instead of the 300 back in 2020. HACM expected to enter the picture in 2027, that might be too late.
@@willwozniak2826Space-X would never have succeed had it not accepted a proportion of failures as part of its development cycle. That's why its called testing. It's dumb to have the program riding on getting it right the first time.
Modern Hypersonic Missile: 1. Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV): Hypersonic boost glide systems normally consist of a ballistic rocket booster and a hypersonic glide vehicle. The glide vehicle separates from their rocket boosters some time after the launch and then it glides and maneuver at high speeds to the target. (Typically slower than ballistic missiles when gliding because of the atmospheric conditions and maneuvers). Examples: ARRW (Air launched version), DF-ZF (Land based version). 2. Hypersonic Cruise Missile (HCM). HCMs are cruise missiles that usually use an air-breathing scramjet engine. (Typically slower than ballistic missiles because of the atmospheric conditions and maneuvers). Examples: Zircon. (Submarine launched version). Traditional ballistic missile: 3. Ballistic missiles have hypersonic speed but their trajectory is predictable and not able to maneuver. However They fly faster and could be equipped with decoys. When people talk about hypersonic missiles today, they don't mean the traditional ballistic missiles. Example: Minuteman III (Land based version), Jericho 3 (Land based version), GAM-87 Skybolt (Air launched version), Kinzhal (Air launched version).
@@erererx3until it's not. There are solutions to problems that have not been found yet. Can you communicate through this fireball, thus have a spotter of some kind? Have they improved inertial navigating?
And with that ends another informative, well-researched volley of up-to-date understanding of an important and complex topic. Great job, Alex! Those military reporting accolades are richly deserved.
Question for you, Alex: Just how many plaid flannel button-up shirts do you own? Also one thing is for sure: Passenger vehicles around the world will definitely tremble in their tires after watching this video. And we now know where all the 90s and early 2000s vehicles went: to military target ranges.
The US Army just chose General Dynamics and Rheinmetall as finalists for the 4000 Bradley replacement IFVs. Could you do a Firepower series video about this program, the two finalists and the other three that dropped out. Or more generally the current state of IFVs (Bradley, CV90, Puma, Lynx) and their most likely future. Maybe even including anti air IFVs like some CV90 variants and SkyRanger.
Alex, Thank you, again, for another incredibly rational presentation of something quick to cause hysteria without people like you shining the light of reality on the issue. And, speaking of thanks, thank you for your years of service and patriotism. A happy subscriber who prays for peace but realizes we must be prepared for enemies who won't take "No" for an answer.
This was really high quality, even moreso than usual I think video quality and the missile footage and proper explanations of this unjustly muddied issue were really valuable to understanding it 👍🏼 great job man
You talk about how important it is for these systems to talk to each other. I would love to see a dedicated video on the systems that make that happen. IBCS I know is one of the newer ones that the army is developing with Northrop Grumman but I know the other branches are integrating into it and have had their own systems but honestly it is one of the most under- appreciated components in the military. Like if we could get a deep dive in to TOC operations and how they have evolved from battlefield runners to things like drummers and flags for relaying information all the way to today it would be pretty awesome. Love your videos.
Alex, once again thanks for the excellent content. There are two things I have not heard about for Hypersonic vehicles: Targetting and payload. Given the ionization around a HV they can't use optics, radar, or infared, that seems to limit them to inertial guidance which won't hit a moving target. Or possibly a radio contact coming in on an antanae trailing in the ionization shadow with something else providing the targeting. As for the payload, the image of the ARRW missile the vehicle looked quite small.
Just found this channel it's amazing I love knowing what the Americans have as weapons ad I'm from Scotland 🏴 in the United Kingdom so we're are with Americans 100 precent ❤❤❤
I recently came across your channel. Thank you for this in depth report. I appreciate accuracy in reporting and it is very hard to find today. I look for to viewing many of your past and future reports. Keep up the good work.
Haha - stock footage at 16:08 - MY TWO SECONDS OF FAME!!. The telescope in the low right (our viewpoint) position on the Contraves Kineto mount is a KTM16 cold stop matched MWIR system. I designed this system and built 24 in the period 1998 - 2002. Most are out here on the China Lake test range, but six of them are scattered about. These scopes were/are very successful, and on the scale of this kind of equipment, cheap. The units were about $40K each. The machined parts were jobbed out to various shops on base. The carbon fiber wound tube and carbon layup backplate made by the composites shop. I fabricated the optics at my lab and put them together. Fun fact, the mirror material is Astro-Sitall, a zero expansion glass/ceramic from Russian. Yes, Soviet era material used in USN surveillance equipment. I ran the Naval Weapons Center Optics lab for 27 years, retiring in 2016 - The KTM job was the most fun I had in my working life.
Nice! Thank you for your service. I also hope that you got to enjoy and keep some of that “pocket change” money for yourself and your invention, that helped the US military, to be better equipped. Bravo, sir! Tired of all the defense, contractors and fearmongers, taking all the dough for themselves. JS! 🙌💕🇺🇸
@@momwithaplan1287 I was a civilian employee, so no thanks deserved. The KTM16 was just one of hundreds of systems I designed, it was my job. I tried to design and build the best systems for the available budget. The carbon structure telescopes we made were high performers relative to cost. While I came up with many original and unique optical designs, I have only two things I'd call true inventions. One I'm especially proud of as it has saved the gov (taxpayer) tens of millions of dollars in test range costs.
USA 🇺🇸 may not always be the first, mainly because we are not about releasing “unfinished” products; but when we do, make no mistake, ours are the BEST !! 🔥🔥🔥
That’s not always true, we have released unfinished products and will in the future too. Sometimes it’s more economical to release something by than nothing.
Not true at all as simply not always the best or first, plus your comparing apples & pears as there completely different weapon systems designed to do different jobs 🤷♂️
All 3 usa new hypersonic programs are complete failures! That's why stopped reporting on them, russias has 3 types that are fully operational. China's are so far advanced they literally got America running scared look up how freaked they was after China sent a hypersonic glide bomber around the world and we don't know they physics in how they delivered there payload. Plus there mach 27 testing facility and infra-red sensor that sees through plasmas that forms during hypersonic flight.
Hypersonic missiles could maneuver simply by shifting their center of mass. You wouldn't need any control surfaces or thrust at all. If they had, for example, a lead ball in the middle of the craft and they want it to tilt down, they'd simple need to move it forward, and if they want to tilt it up, they could just move it backward. It's like when they need to balance out the weight on an airliner.
Sorry, I know this is not a feeling i should have for a weapon that could potentially pulverize anything within its reach, but just the mental image of a ball rolling around inside one of these feels like it's so silly.
Shifting the missile at Mach 5+ would imply expending energy, shortening the range, and heating up the missile more. I assume that there must be some G and curvature radius that they are constrained to.
correct, just realise that the shape of the missile is an aerodynamic profile in itself, but yes weight shift works. Exisitng Russian platforms use fin guided and thrust vectoring, you could suggest TV was an analogy of weight shift.
@@z_actualI saw a comment under a short on hypersonics in Russian; it was a short sentence about being able to control plasma. While the rolling ball - or a gyroscope system - could work practically well, being able to magnetically affect the plasma sheath around the projectile could not only work, but solve a number of problems at once.
Talking too much about active flow control could give other militaries ideas (who can't you criticize on UA-cam?...). However I think that the 'comrades' of the RDF don't particularly need them.
Alex, you are utterly brilliant. Your ability to present complex subject matter, depth of research, editing and unbridled enthusiasm for the subject are worthy of more awards than I could shake a stick at. I very much enjoy each and every new video.
Except, Laser can't be present everywhere simultaneously at once and neither has infinite range. If your adversary really want with dead then YOU ARE DEAD. This is the age of missiles and satellites. Look what happened to the Israeli Iron dome.
Given that hypersonic speeds generate an enormous amount of heat and are built to handle that heat, and lasers destroy missiles by heating them up until either something burns up or it explodes the payload, and lasers have to be focused on a single point for an extended period to actually do anything, well, no. The main threat of a maneuvering hypersonic weapon is that if you throw an interceptor half its speed at it, you have to put it pretty far ahead to get the intercept. When the missile then changes course, now you are way off on that intercept and likely can't throw another missile in the new path before it gets past. Think of it like hitting a baseball. You don't have to swing the bat faster than the ball, you just have to predict where the ball will be. That's why curveballs are hard, becuase the path changes after you are already swinging the bat.
@@Ethan0433 Impressive response however when you compare the costs of these assets you quickly realize militaries can and already are building in the megawatts lasers which not only fire and aim at the literal speed of light and can get as hot as you are willing to provide them with variable power. At a fraction of the cost all missiles will one day become irrelevant (until the lasers are countered with some types of high tech mirroring technology). It's not a question of if but a question of when.
Hypersonic missiles are still seemingly a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. But yes, this goes onto the long list of things Russia claims to have and the US actually has.
@@randomuser5443 Kind of. I think it was Perun who pointed out that you could spend the same amount of money to overwhelm air defenses with a large number of conventional missiles or one "silver bullet" missile. I dig the bragging rights of the silver bullet, though
Controversial opinion: USA doesn't need to outspeed or outrange enemy missiles. It need faqload of ATACMS / PrSMs under F-15s, GMLRS-ER under F-16s/F-18s by the truckload. Rapid Dragons. Addressing maintenance backlog in the fleet.
I actually agree with you; both China and Russia are adopting a strategy of law-of-averages-by-brute-force-numbers hits. Iron dome can fire dozens of interceptors at an inciming barrage, yet sometimes there are so many inbounds that a few hits are scored anyways. We need to counter their numbers with more numbers. And something somewhat better than THAAD which can destroy inbounds before or right after they cross the Karman line.
@@HuntingTargfor the same reason you didint know about the SR-71, or F111 untill right before they retired them… And the fact the missile was no longer funded… yet somehow continues development? Black budget And THAAD is a very old and outdated system. In the 2000s THAAD was outdated and replaced. We are replacing that system now…
Good, crisp writing. It's great that you make the distinctions and articulate them so well. Nuance is necessary but can be confusing. Damn, this weapon could make some incredible kills in a battle. I have an idea for another show: With these complicated kill chains needed for our modern weaponry in air, land, and sea combat, does the US military have contingency plans if the grid goes down during battle? Like a quick backup plan, go with a simpler method of communication and weapon delivery system, which every operator is accustomed to switching to? Or have they not considered this? I'm sure they must have.
And the French had it in the 1920s and was fielding it in the 60s and 70s… what’s your point? Shall I remember you that the SR-71 engines were based on the French, 1930s, Leduc engines? That the USA space program was built and conducted by Germans without who the USA would have never made it to the moon? That the USA’s nuclear programs and bombs were based on French research and German engineers?
Did not and tell you know nothing about hypersonics. you had rockets capable of hypersonic speeds. the new hypersonics are HGV and scramjets that you were struggling with through to 2017 proof is HIFIRE joint Australia, USA hypersonics and HAWC hypersonic missile was developed through these programmes. SCIFIRE was AUKUS joint hypersonics programme. Australia has world fastest scramjet and wind tunnels to test hypersonics that even China stole the wind tunnel design for theirs
@@Rangerone13 You didn't actually. X43A flew straight was no tech for flying hypersonics in manouvres. If research HIFIRE and that is the biggest USA,AUS joint hypersonics programmes they studied HGV during these. how vehicles manouvred during hypersonic flight. HIFIRE 4 2017 successful HGV test as they stated.
We are not behind in this hypersonic tech. We're just the only ones who are taking the concept and actually making a practical, useful, and reliable weapon
@@sshumkaerthey are still trying to build an airplane that's close to the F22 , a plane developed in the late 80's , built in the 90's and is still the most dominant aircraft built to date. And to think , the Skunkworks has had all this time to create something 50 times better.
@thomasblankinship98 You can't outdue quality. Concerning the F-22 one of the big disagreement happening right now Concerning the NGAD is what good is a 6 generation aircraft without having generation technology if the F-22 can still defeat it in a dog fight. That is something to watch out for in the years a head
You know Russia actually developed this year's ago and has proven it on a battlefield. We've got failing prototypes pushed out of 50yr old cargo planes. I can't tell if your real or just really out of touch with reality.
Alex' eyes were lit like I haven't seen in many other videos. I think he was totally excited for this one. Not gonna lie, I was too. Thanks for this one.
@@vlhc4642ahem. No it is not, same as the railgun program. While the railgun program is dead the government is still looking into railguns. So even if it was truly “dead” (although I doubt it) they are still researching it
@@HuntingTarg I've heard that part of the problem with various advanced gun system programs in the US was that they made the airmen who fly desks at the Pentagon nervous about the role of aircraft in a future role. So they end up doing things like requiring rail-guns to have a better barrel life than the guns on WWII battleships. And sunofabitch ... you can't do that on your first try with a tech. Program fails to meet requirements, gets canned. Try again in 20 years. Or so I've heard.
Not really. Unless you have dozens of them hit near-enough the exact same spot, you're not going to do any harm to that beast. It is, functionally, solid concrete. And if you do burst the dam, congratulations: you have now committed a war crime & killed millions of people in the resulting flood. That, and the dam isn't exactly on the coast. You'd have to get pretty close to the mainland to have a chance at hitting it. The stealth bombers could do that, but anything else would be intercept able by Chinese fighters and/or SAMs. Besides, the dam isn't even that important of a target anyway. It produces something like 0.25% of the country's electrical power.
We're not even on the chess board yet, Russia already developed and deployed this. We're embarrassingly behind and everyone except you and this group knows it.
@@wolfgangkranek376 You say that… but the USA is forward deployed overseas. There are oceans between the USA’s adversaries and its homeland. It can easily reach out and touch anyone.
Im not surprised. Everyone got real excited when china and russia started talking about hypersonic missiles. I didn't because we've experimented with that shit before they even thought of it and mothballed it. Was only a matter of time till we came back with, but probably better in more ways than 1.
@michaelkendall662 no, mothballed because that wasn't the direction military strategy wanted to go. Politics, money, and strategy. Like most tech that gets mothballed.
@@RAWDEAL064 you obviously have MP idea what you are talking about...they could BARELY handle the temperatures for the SR-71 in the period let alone speed TWICE or faster....go climb back under your rock dude
UA-cam is playing games with this channel Alex. The channel has been “hidden” on my feed despite liking every one of these videos and adding it to my favorites.
Damn hearing you call Russian weapons weaksauce literally brought a smile to my face😂. I literally got a mix of nostalgia and happiness hearing you roast them lol.
Could you do a video about the future of Shorad? Will short range air defense provided by the laser stryker? Will the Bradley replacement IFV XM30 function as an anti air cannon? Should the US look at the SkyRanger / Skynex / millenium gun system? And will there be a Stinger replacement with a better battery, targeting, and most importantly more affordable? Or is this affordable future the APKWS guidance upgrade for the cheap and plentiful Hydra 70mm rocket? Should we slap that on Avenger Hummvees? Or IRIS-T?
China: i thought they had to be 1000 miles closer to launch aircraft from their carrier! We cant target them with our hypersonics! Usa: WOMP WOMP (sends hundreds of arrows from carrier borne aircraft, taking out targets outside of chinese range)
On April 27, 2022, Russia announced the development of a new hypersonic-guided missile codenamed Gremlin. The missile will be smaller than Kinzhal. Its carriers are Tu-22M3 strategic bombers, Su-57, Su-30SM, and Su-35S fighter jets. Su-57 can carry Gremlin inside the fuselage.
@@idarpolden5913 The F-22 has secret sauce in it, they are not and never will be available for export. Also, NATO is not overly concerned about an actual handful of Su-57s and their truly mediocre stealth capability, an entirely new generation of air superiority fighters is in development from the American NGAD program. They had a prototype flying years ago, and the Air Force and Navy have their own projects. The F-22 is from the 90's, albeit with upgrades.
@@crowe6961 Since F22 is for display only, we could have sent the F35 instead of the F16 to fight the Su-57 with S-70. Somehow Clownskyy didn't even want the F18 either. F16 isn't that great on the bombed runways.
@@crowe6961 The SU-57 is actually using the Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B over Ukraine. See the attacks far inside Ukraine like the Patriot attack. Notice the clear stable video of the attacks.
My friend is retired Air Force and while working on his Master's degree in 1996 he did a report on the x-51 hypersonic test vehicle at that time. Have you ever heard of the x-51?
I never heard of it. At any rate it can't beat the Russian and Chinese HYPE-Sonic weapons. They all fly the speed of light and have a trillion miles range, It maybe be 20 trillions miles range. I can't read Russian or Chinese but in on their Website.
Underestimating any adversary, is always a fast road to failure. But, I think that is the reason, that the USA designed, and built the ARRW. They didn't know for sure if Russia's claims of successful hypersonic technology was to be believed, or not, so they took Russia at their word, and designed a weapon that can match the claim. I think the US military does this often. They hear that an adversary has a more potent means of attack, and without complete verification of whether or not the claims can be substantiated, they just have to take those claims to be a real threat, and build their own means, to match that unproven claim.
@@Inertia888 We in Moscow had no doubt that the Americans would create something. Sooner or later. There are scientists everywhere. Try to bring this rocket of yours to the series, we'll see how you do it. In the meantime, we are building faster rockets using already proven technologies.
I think the real key is a "maneuverable" hypersonic missile. The reason is because if truly hypersonic, no signals can get in or out because of the plasma around the missile. Now, it maybe that the initial aiming for a target, starts out headed to a slightly different location and then after a specific time in flight, steering could be actuated which in turn changes its path to hit what was actually the real target. What this would amount is making a preplanned adjustment in flight, strictly based on the timing of when the adjustment occurs. The missile will not know where it is at and can not see the actual target. As with a high speed ballistic missile it is on a ballistic path. But if you initially aim 10 mile left of the target and then precisely at the correct time, steer right, the adjusted ballistic path would be to take it where you actually wanted it to go. But the missile can not home in on a target because it is blind. Nor can it know that an intercept is on the way and try to evade. So any maneuverability is merely a very precisely time deception/diversion, pre -programmed in. This inability of a hypersonic missile to be "smart" because it is "deaf and blind", makes it just another ballistic missile. As I understand it, the inability to defy physics is what was driving cancellation. But pre-programming a diversion, could make it harder to intercept assuming the enemy didn't know the real target. Unlikely that they wouldn't know what they were trying to protect.
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@SandboxxApp - Hey Alex, the discount is only showing 30% - has the 40% offer expired?
As far as I know Russian Federation was the first to launch air launched hypersonic system..
dishonest video dude. we dont even have the proper wind tunnels or infrastructure for testing Russian or Chinese style glide hypersonics
And once again in the thick of it is the good old B-52.
Grandpa buff lives forever.
B-52
B-1B
B-2
F-15
All initially designed & developed in the 20th Century.
WOOGA WOOGA WOOGA!! 👹
If it’s ain’t broken don’t fix it
Still looks bad ass.
Very stable known drop platform with as needed on demand sensors and comms.
US Air Force: We canceled the ARRW😔
Also US Air Force: We successfully tested the ARRW
We didn't cancel anything. We just stopped giving money. Lockmart decided to continue using their own funding
I call it. “Keeping them on their toes”!
Ruzzia and Chyna lie about what their said weapons can do.
While we USA deny, downgrade, stop talking about, such said, -- weapons. Then BOOM, here they are. HELLLLO Boys, wanna join the party?!
Ruzzia & Chyna: Pikachu face! 😂☠️
USAF: we won't comment on if it succeeded, but we did gain value insight into future programs
In other words, it failed, lol
@@vlhc4642 Actually if memory serves the "weapon" itself functioned perfectly in the original test. The problems arose from the powered part and like the detachment system on the carrying plane.
@@pegasusted2504 Dude you need to be able to release it to test it.
And no there were no instances where any test of the HGV was successful, the only "succeeds" was the one time the solid rocket booster worked.
Thank you for correctly defining hypersonic
Alex was defining "Hypersonics" for eternity now.
Is that a universally accepted classification or is it just US terminology?
Above mach 5 isn't the correct definition, it's a convenient generalisation.
7,000 mph.
@Munga696 you know, I want to correct myself because I'm not sure a missile can do 7,000 without thermal issues. I guess maybe at 25 miles high?
It's crazy how solid the F15 is.. and others of that generation... just fantastic tools of force.
The US military peaked right around 1985-1990
its been in steady decline since
Primary mission is to ensure everyone fits in and can wear the shoes of their choice, ah, and also use the boy/girl bathroom they feel on that minute/second!@@paulbarclay4114
In numbers, sure. Not in capability. Today's weapons and ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance) make the US military machine much more effective. @@paulbarclay4114
F-15 is hands down the best fighter jet ever made.
the F-15 is extremely adaptable you'd be hard-pressed to find a role that the F-15 can't do for a military . I mean what weapon can't an F-15 carry does anyone know ?
Sometimes the reason you're late to show up is because you're bringing a better present to the party.
A real present…everyone else’s is fake lol
@@vlhc4642 cope harder, Trollsky.
@@vlhc4642 lol spoken by someone who has no clue. the ones currently being fielded are either fake and aren't really hypersonics, or are basically ICBM-only.
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bro look up the x 15 it was a manned plane from the 60s that was faster than the khinzhal which is really just a 30 year old air launched icbm... the v2 rocket from ww2 was a hypersonic missile do you think if the nazis from 1945 showed up today and started threating us with v2 rockets would you be on here fan boying over them? probably@@vlhc4642
I see Alex isn't just the master of balanced aviation reporting, he's also mastered time travel. Kudos.
Its always fun to watch a man who loves his work dive gleefully into his 'job'.😂 Reminds me of being a ski instructor in NE Italy.
this dudes way too happy about weapons of mass destruction being produced
It's almost looks like a REAL smile. Lol
@@Trule2456 If you were listening you would have noted that he repeatedly called out the fact that Arrow NON-NUCLEAR, thus not a weapon of mass destruction, with a few hundred kilos of HE at most.
@@larrybuzbee7344Don’t bother. This jackwagon thinks he has the high ground. We’re all hawks.
@@ronjon7942 While being a ski instructor I was also telecommunications operator for a tactical nuclear weapons battalion. So I have some background on the subject of deterrence and WMD as well as the fun parts of being a soldier. That little backhand cost me nothing, and the tankies need a few here and there. I'm happy to oblige.
Bro, literally everyone should watch your show. It’s easily the best military/technology reporting I’ve ever seen. I mean Simon is great and all, but your stuff cuts right into the root and the source. I’m always sharing your videos with a good ole “I told ya so”
Simon who?
@@Dornumbo I believe I was talking about Simon Whistler. He’s got a couple channels, and a few dedicated to doing in depth analysis on military hardware.
@@jakel9030 oh. I just get it. Thank you man for answering. Yes Simon is a true professional too
Everything's faster with air delivery.
The other advantage of air delivery is that you can beef up the stated range of the missile by including the range of the aircraft. Just ask the Kinzhal
*Santa can now deliver hypersonic bombs- I MEAN PRESENTS at the speed of Mach 25 straight from his slay*
@Pax.AlotinDude, it’s Santa, he uses magical force fields to protect the pressies, no need for bulky ceramic heat shielding.
Even Russian nukes.
@Pax.Alotin the ablative plating is designed to use atmospheric drag to slow down the re-entry vehicle. a warhead doesn't need to slow down or protect the people onboard but Santa can go the speed of light so he obviously doesn't use Newtonian physics
Semper Fi, Brother. You have an excellent informative and educational channel here!
OUTSTANDING report Alex...Was waiting to see your update.. i still see Russian bots talking smack about the ARRW...Now the US can test out the SM 6 BLOCK IB against an actual Hypersonic Glide Body target.....OUTSTANDING..👉🏻
If its like the work of de patriots ? the dam in zaphorizia have or aswer no????? hum the video of the x101 lanching the decoys its very (4stars) great.
That will so cool!
@@pedrohpires6608 15 million per missile. ARRW....tough choice Uncle Sam has to make if they want a few to hold them over.. of course that was during all the failed tests, not sure what the price would be now for say a 100 of them instead of the 300 back in 2020. HACM expected to enter the picture in 2027, that might be too late.
They should start publishing the results of the sm 6 versus current cruise missiles. It could be fraudulent.
@@willwozniak2826Space-X would never have succeed had it not accepted a proportion of failures as part of its development cycle. That's why its called testing. It's dumb to have the program riding on getting it right the first time.
Modern Hypersonic Missile:
1. Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV): Hypersonic boost glide systems normally consist of a ballistic rocket booster and a hypersonic glide vehicle. The glide vehicle separates from their rocket boosters some time after the launch and then it glides and maneuver at high speeds to the target. (Typically slower than ballistic missiles when gliding because of the atmospheric conditions and maneuvers). Examples: ARRW (Air launched version), DF-ZF (Land based version).
2. Hypersonic Cruise Missile (HCM). HCMs are cruise missiles that usually use an air-breathing scramjet
engine. (Typically slower than ballistic missiles because of the atmospheric
conditions and maneuvers). Examples: Zircon. (Submarine launched version).
Traditional ballistic missile:
3. Ballistic missiles have hypersonic speed but their trajectory is predictable and not able to maneuver. However They fly faster and could be equipped with decoys. When people talk about hypersonic missiles today, they don't mean the traditional ballistic missiles. Example: Minuteman III (Land based version), Jericho 3 (Land based version), GAM-87 Skybolt (Air launched version), Kinzhal (Air launched version).
And everybody forgets it isn't precision weapon as it's blinded by plasma fireball they are traveling in...
@@erererx3until it's not. There are solutions to problems that have not been found yet. Can you communicate through this fireball, thus have a spotter of some kind? Have they improved inertial navigating?
ARRW is an ALBM just like the Kinzhal. It's not impressive.
@@Mercer1012the video passed right above your head didn't it
7:12 dude that's my truck
Does your insurance cover missile tests?
That insurance call will be interesting... :P
Nope, that WAS your truck 😂
When I was seeing those, I was thinking that they were destroying vehicles way nicer than my '91 Cherokee!!!
@@chrislong3938 Ouch! I've had vehicles like that.
And with that ends another informative, well-researched volley of up-to-date understanding of an important and complex topic. Great job, Alex! Those military reporting accolades are richly deserved.
Question for you, Alex:
Just how many plaid flannel button-up shirts do you own?
Also one thing is for sure: Passenger vehicles around the world will definitely tremble in their tires after watching this video.
And we now know where all the 90s and early 2000s vehicles went: to military target ranges.
Brawny man Bing Bong
I was starting to think the USAF has something against SUVs and pickup trucks, could they not throw a Volvo estate into the mix every now and then.
All
Thanks for clearing up a number of misconceptions. Your information was presented clearly and concisely. Many thanks...
The US Army just chose General Dynamics and Rheinmetall as finalists for the 4000 Bradley replacement IFVs.
Could you do a Firepower series video about this program, the two finalists and the other three that dropped out. Or more generally the current state of IFVs (Bradley, CV90, Puma, Lynx) and their most likely future. Maybe even including anti air IFVs like some CV90 variants and SkyRanger.
Bro is desperate 💀
That’s not his area. He rarely does non-air power stories. There are good sources that talk about those platforms.
BTW, that happened nearly a year ago. So, this didn’t “just” happen. This is extremely old news.
Very Knowledgeable, concise, and no fluff. Thanks for all the time and work you put into these videos for us.
My Friday is complete! A new AirPower!
great report. You deserve the accolades. thanks muchly.
Great video Alex. You were ahead of the curve on this one!
That sled at the beginning of this video still gives me goosebumps!!!
Talk about gaining a sense of speed!!!
Alex, Thank you, again, for another incredibly rational presentation of something quick to cause hysteria without people like you shining the light of reality on the issue. And, speaking of thanks, thank you for your years of service and patriotism.
A happy subscriber who prays for peace but realizes we must be prepared for enemies who won't take "No" for an answer.
Thank you for the kind words!
This was really high quality, even moreso than usual I think video quality and the missile footage and proper explanations of this unjustly muddied issue were really valuable to understanding it 👍🏼 great job man
Thanks, Alex. Great work, as always.
You talk about how important it is for these systems to talk to each other. I would love to see a dedicated video on the systems that make that happen. IBCS I know is one of the newer ones that the army is developing with Northrop Grumman but I know the other branches are integrating into it and have had their own systems but honestly it is one of the most under- appreciated components in the military. Like if we could get a deep dive in to TOC operations and how they have evolved from battlefield runners to things like drummers and flags for relaying information all the way to today it would be pretty awesome. Love your videos.
"The notably un-stealthy B-52" xD
The cloud of freedom.
Alex, once again thanks for the excellent content. There are two things I have not heard about for Hypersonic vehicles: Targetting and payload. Given the ionization around a HV they can't use optics, radar, or infared, that seems to limit them to inertial guidance which won't hit a moving target. Or possibly a radio contact coming in on an antanae trailing in the ionization shadow with something else providing the targeting. As for the payload, the image of the ARRW missile the vehicle looked quite small.
As always, thank you for your comprehensive yet understandable presentation of the information surrounding these weapon platforms.
Thanks for your detailed, comprehensive coverage, Alex !
I would have been watching 7 years ago if I had found you.
Love your work, keep it up.
Just found this channel it's amazing I love knowing what the Americans have as weapons ad I'm from Scotland 🏴 in the United Kingdom so we're are with Americans 100 precent ❤❤❤
Thanks for providing context to the headlines! I was waiting for this video!
I recently came across your channel. Thank you for this in depth report. I appreciate accuracy in reporting and it is very hard to find today. I look for to viewing many of your past and future reports. Keep up the good work.
I love your enthusiasm for the topic!
Man I love it when you make my weekend. Like this one.
Best wishes to you!!
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P.S. Go, Arizona Wildcats!
Haha - stock footage at 16:08 - MY TWO SECONDS OF FAME!!. The telescope in the low right (our viewpoint) position on the Contraves Kineto mount is a KTM16 cold stop matched MWIR system. I designed this system and built 24 in the period 1998 - 2002. Most are out here on the China Lake test range, but six of them are scattered about. These scopes were/are very successful, and on the scale of this kind of equipment, cheap. The units were about $40K each. The machined parts were jobbed out to various shops on base. The carbon fiber wound tube and carbon layup backplate made by the composites shop. I fabricated the optics at my lab and put them together. Fun fact, the mirror material is Astro-Sitall, a zero expansion glass/ceramic from Russian. Yes, Soviet era material used in USN surveillance equipment.
I ran the Naval Weapons Center Optics lab for 27 years, retiring in 2016 - The KTM job was the most fun I had in my working life.
Nice!
Thank you for your service. I also hope that you got to enjoy and keep some of that “pocket change” money for yourself and your invention, that helped the US military, to be better equipped. Bravo, sir!
Tired of all the defense, contractors and fearmongers, taking all the dough for themselves. JS! 🙌💕🇺🇸
@@momwithaplan1287 I was a civilian employee, so no thanks deserved.
The KTM16 was just one of hundreds of systems I designed, it was my job. I tried to design and build the best systems for the available budget. The carbon structure telescopes we made were high performers relative to cost.
While I came up with many original and unique optical designs, I have only two things I'd call true inventions. One I'm especially proud of as it has saved the gov (taxpayer) tens of millions of dollars in test range costs.
You nailed it, my friend. Great job
Thanks for drilling down into the details and clearing up the "noise" surrounding this topic. Keep up the good work!
USA 🇺🇸 may not always be the first, mainly because we are not about releasing “unfinished” products; but when we do, make no mistake, ours are the BEST !! 🔥🔥🔥
That's kindof how the Space Race went down.
That’s not always true, we have released unfinished products and will in the future too. Sometimes it’s more economical to release something by than nothing.
Not true at all as simply not always the best or first, plus your comparing apples & pears as there completely different weapon systems designed to do different jobs 🤷♂️
@@jetli80 are we talking about military weapons? If not, carry on, I’m not interested…
All 3 usa new hypersonic programs are complete failures! That's why stopped reporting on them, russias has 3 types that are fully operational. China's are so far advanced they literally got America running scared look up how freaked they was after China sent a hypersonic glide bomber around the world and we don't know they physics in how they delivered there payload. Plus there mach 27 testing facility and infra-red sensor that sees through plasmas that forms during hypersonic flight.
Thank you Alex for the clarification on Hypersonic Adjectives and Hypersonic Weapons. It clears this up for me.
It’s truly amazing how insanely capable the US military and her technology is.
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DARPA has created unimaginable weapons that aren't on any budget list .
her ? yep you said it
So insane it never worked and just got cancelled, lol
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far freaking out . . . Alex, you are something else.
*_I'M ALEX HOLLINGS!_*
AND THIS, IS AIRPOWER!🛫✈️🛩🚀💥🚁🛬
No I'm Alex Hollings
"Mr.Froman, this is Sergeant Peterson, Chicago Police ..."
@@TonyStark-uu9us *_YOU'RE ALEX HOLLINGS!_*
Greetings from Peru ALEX!
Thanks for yet another great bit of reporting Alex!
Simply the best source of this kind of coverage!
Hypersonic missiles could maneuver simply by shifting their center of mass. You wouldn't need any control surfaces or thrust at all. If they had, for example, a lead ball in the middle of the craft and they want it to tilt down, they'd simple need to move it forward, and if they want to tilt it up, they could just move it backward. It's like when they need to balance out the weight on an airliner.
Sorry, I know this is not a feeling i should have for a weapon that could potentially pulverize anything within its reach, but just the mental image of a ball rolling around inside one of these feels like it's so silly.
Shifting the missile at Mach 5+ would imply expending energy, shortening the range, and heating up the missile more.
I assume that there must be some G and curvature radius that they are constrained to.
@@nfuryboss that would be true, but it would probably be less drag than using conventional control surfaces overall.
correct, just realise that the shape of the missile is an aerodynamic profile in itself, but yes weight shift works.
Exisitng Russian platforms use fin guided and thrust vectoring, you could suggest TV was an analogy of weight shift.
@@z_actualI saw a comment under a short on hypersonics in Russian; it was a short sentence about being able to control plasma. While the rolling ball - or a gyroscope system - could work practically well, being able to magnetically affect the plasma sheath around the projectile could not only work, but solve a number of problems at once.
Just amazing in-depth look in to some these technical marvel, thanks so much Sir Alex keep up the brilliant work, i never miss a single video of yours
A video about the X65 and active flow control would be cool.
Talking too much about active flow control could give other militaries ideas (who can't you criticize on UA-cam?...).
However I think that the 'comrades' of the RDF don't particularly need them.
Alex, you are utterly brilliant. Your ability to present complex subject matter, depth of research, editing and unbridled enthusiasm for the subject are worthy of more awards than I could shake a stick at. I very much enjoy each and every new video.
I see Alex uploads,I click.I’m a simple man
☕️ Simple man 🧍♂️
That orange logo gets me every time..
So true!!
Great vid! I've been wondering about everything you touched on....thank you covering this.
Anything 1 man can build 1 man can counter
In a word: Laser
Except, Laser can't be present everywhere simultaneously at once and neither has infinite range.
If your adversary really want with dead then YOU ARE DEAD.
This is the age of missiles and satellites.
Look what happened to the Israeli Iron dome.
Given that hypersonic speeds generate an enormous amount of heat and are built to handle that heat, and lasers destroy missiles by heating them up until either something burns up or it explodes the payload, and lasers have to be focused on a single point for an extended period to actually do anything, well, no.
The main threat of a maneuvering hypersonic weapon is that if you throw an interceptor half its speed at it, you have to put it pretty far ahead to get the intercept. When the missile then changes course, now you are way off on that intercept and likely can't throw another missile in the new path before it gets past.
Think of it like hitting a baseball. You don't have to swing the bat faster than the ball, you just have to predict where the ball will be. That's why curveballs are hard, becuase the path changes after you are already swinging the bat.
@@Ethan0433 Impressive response however when you compare the costs of these assets you quickly realize militaries can and already are building in the megawatts lasers which not only fire and aim at the literal speed of light and can get as hot as you are willing to provide them with variable power. At a fraction of the cost all missiles will one day become irrelevant (until the lasers are countered with some types of high tech mirroring technology).
It's not a question of if but a question of when.
Hey you may want to bone up on modern lasers especially UK naval lasers@mona.supremacy
I love the future Alex and Past Alex in the video- very reminiscent of an Austin Powers plot!
Russia and China: "we have hypersonic weapons and Usa doesn't. We will be ahead for years!!"
*2 years later*
shit......
American: “and mine works”
Hypersonic missiles are still seemingly a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. But yes, this goes onto the long list of things Russia claims to have and the US actually has.
@@hanrockabrand95its for when you need to kill something really fast without a lot of risk
@@randomuser5443 Kind of. I think it was Perun who pointed out that you could spend the same amount of money to overwhelm air defenses with a large number of conventional missiles or one "silver bullet" missile. I dig the bragging rights of the silver bullet, though
Our hypersonic missiles failed multiple times. China is the only one ahead of that category, the US and Russia are behind.
Appreciate what you do Alex, past, present, future counterparts included
Controversial opinion: USA doesn't need to outspeed or outrange enemy missiles. It need faqload of ATACMS / PrSMs under F-15s, GMLRS-ER under F-16s/F-18s by the truckload. Rapid Dragons. Addressing maintenance backlog in the fleet.
I actually agree with you; both China and Russia are adopting a strategy of law-of-averages-by-brute-force-numbers hits. Iron dome can fire dozens of interceptors at an inciming barrage, yet sometimes there are so many inbounds that a few hits are scored anyways.
We need to counter their numbers with more numbers. And something somewhat better than THAAD which can destroy inbounds before or right after they cross the Karman line.
Yes more dakka
@@HuntingTargfor the same reason you didint know about the SR-71, or F111 untill right before they retired them…
And the fact the missile was no longer funded… yet somehow continues development?
Black budget
And THAAD is a very old and outdated system. In the 2000s THAAD was outdated and replaced.
We are replacing that system now…
The only issue is cost. Missiles are expensive!
Good, crisp writing. It's great that you make the distinctions and articulate them so well. Nuance is necessary but can be confusing.
Damn, this weapon could make some incredible kills in a battle.
I have an idea for another show:
With these complicated kill chains needed for our modern weaponry in air, land, and sea combat, does the US military have contingency plans if the grid goes down during battle?
Like a quick backup plan, go with a simpler method of communication and weapon delivery system, which every operator is accustomed to switching to? Or have they not considered this? I'm sure they must have.
We as in the US had this technology in the 60s. They just shelved it for future use like all other highly classified projects.
The x15 was basically a missile with a cockpit😂
And the French had it in the 1920s and was fielding it in the 60s and 70s… what’s your point?
Shall I remember you that the SR-71 engines were based on the French, 1930s, Leduc engines?
That the USA space program was built and conducted by Germans without who the USA would have never made it to the moon?
That the USA’s nuclear programs and bombs were based on French research and German engineers?
Did not and tell you know nothing about hypersonics. you had rockets capable of hypersonic speeds. the new hypersonics are HGV and scramjets that you were struggling with through to 2017 proof is HIFIRE joint Australia, USA hypersonics and HAWC hypersonic missile was developed through these programmes. SCIFIRE was AUKUS joint hypersonics programme.
Australia has world fastest scramjet and wind tunnels to test hypersonics that even China stole the wind tunnel design for theirs
I think he meant we had the ability to maneuver craft at hypersonic speeds back in the 60s in atmosphere
@@Rangerone13 You didn't actually. X43A flew straight was no tech for flying hypersonics in manouvres.
If research HIFIRE and that is the biggest USA,AUS joint hypersonics programmes they studied HGV during these. how vehicles manouvred during hypersonic flight. HIFIRE 4 2017 successful HGV test as they stated.
Nice job! Excited to hear if they go forward with ARRW...
Consistently well done and extremely informative. You have me hooked on this channel for that esoteric fix I otherwise didn't even know I needed.
Thanks
We are not behind in this hypersonic tech. We're just the only ones who are taking the concept and actually making a practical, useful, and reliable weapon
We never are behind. Everyone else is just touching our 60s, 70s, 80s research
@@sshumkaerthey are still trying to build an airplane that's close to the F22 , a plane developed in the late 80's , built in the 90's and is still the most dominant aircraft built to date. And to think , the Skunkworks has had all this time to create something 50 times better.
@thomasblankinship98 You can't outdue quality. Concerning the F-22 one of the big disagreement happening right now Concerning the NGAD is what good is a 6 generation aircraft without having generation technology if the F-22 can still defeat it in a dog fight. That is something to watch out for in the years a head
You know Russia actually developed this year's ago and has proven it on a battlefield. We've got failing prototypes pushed out of 50yr old cargo planes.
I can't tell if your real or just really out of touch with reality.
@@cheekybastard99source lol
Thank you, the second half of your video is very informative and comforting to know, we keep world peace at whatever cost 🇺🇸
I'm excited to see the rotating detonation engine, surely it will get some live tests somewhat soon.
NASA has already live-tested a rotating detonation rocket engine. There are vids on UA-cam of that test.
Alex' eyes were lit like I haven't seen in many other videos. I think he was totally excited for this one. Not gonna lie, I was too. Thanks for this one.
Kinzhal and Zircon are also air-launched...
Great Summary of a subject I knew little about. Keep up the good work
😂Weak-Sauce...You Just Got Cooler Than Ever!😎
That's very old slang
Just wanted to say been listening for a year by far one of your best pieces thank you
Its crazy that one can fit on an F-15.
Regardless of whats said, im not so sure about that
It can't fit on anything, the program is dead.
@@vlhc4642ahem. No it is not, same as the railgun program. While the railgun program is dead the government is still looking into railguns. So even if it was truly “dead” (although I doubt it) they are still researching it
@@alphateam3326Railguns work, they just don't work practically enough for military applications (yet).
I don't think either tech is dead.
@@HuntingTarg I've heard that part of the problem with various advanced gun system programs in the US was that they made the airmen who fly desks at the Pentagon nervous about the role of aircraft in a future role. So they end up doing things like requiring rail-guns to have a better barrel life than the guns on WWII battleships. And sunofabitch ... you can't do that on your first try with a tech. Program fails to meet requirements, gets canned. Try again in 20 years.
Or so I've heard.
Thanks for the update.
The Iskander/Khinzhal is maneuverable, but it has more in common with the pershing ii from the 80s than with modern weapons like arrw or zircon.
Can you explain for someone with less knowledge?
that's why we watch your content bro. you know your stuff!
The perfect weapon for the three gorges dam lmao
Not really. Unless you have dozens of them hit near-enough the exact same spot, you're not going to do any harm to that beast. It is, functionally, solid concrete. And if you do burst the dam, congratulations: you have now committed a war crime & killed millions of people in the resulting flood.
That, and the dam isn't exactly on the coast. You'd have to get pretty close to the mainland to have a chance at hitting it. The stealth bombers could do that, but anything else would be intercept able by Chinese fighters and/or SAMs.
Besides, the dam isn't even that important of a target anyway. It produces something like 0.25% of the country's electrical power.
The dam is not a target; that went out with WW2. We are not even thinking about "strategic bombing" for major conflicts.
Why would you want to kill millions living downstream?
Ala ka blam
Thank you Alex, you're my go to for all breaking military news as you're always on the mark.
Just getting the chess pieces ready.
Too bad, that all others are playing Go.
We're not even on the chess board yet, Russia already developed and deployed this. We're embarrassingly behind and everyone except you and this group knows it.
@@wolfgangkranek376The USA is playing 4 dimensional chess. Everyone else is just playing chess.
@@ScentlessSun Judging from what I've seen, most in the US can't distinguish between chess and checkers.
@@wolfgangkranek376 You say that… but the USA is forward deployed overseas. There are oceans between the USA’s adversaries and its homeland. It can easily reach out and touch anyone.
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Im not surprised. Everyone got real excited when china and russia started talking about hypersonic missiles. I didn't because we've experimented with that shit before they even thought of it and mothballed it. Was only a matter of time till we came back with, but probably better in more ways than 1.
mothballed because the material science wasn't there yet
@michaelkendall662 no, mothballed because that wasn't the direction military strategy wanted to go. Politics, money, and strategy. Like most tech that gets mothballed.
@@RAWDEAL064 mothballed because the MATERIAL SCIENCE wasn't there 50 years ago
@@michaelkendall662 it most certainly was there.
@@RAWDEAL064 you obviously have MP idea what you are talking about...they could BARELY handle the temperatures for the SR-71 in the period let alone speed TWICE or faster....go climb back under your rock dude
Nice breakdown Alex . And I respect all marines . Airborne !
UA-cam is playing games with this channel Alex. The channel has been “hidden” on my feed despite liking every one of these videos and adding it to my favorites.
Did you subscribe? Cause if you tap the bell icon, you'll never miss a drop...from Sandboxx news. :-)
I'm from the UK and the documentries are good and very informed
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Russia's super Sonic misske didn't prove to be any benefit as the patriot still shot it down. I mean it'll get there a little faster
Outstanding!! As Always, Thank You for Clarifying this to Many People !!
Damn hearing you call Russian weapons weaksauce literally brought a smile to my face😂. I literally got a mix of nostalgia and happiness hearing you roast them lol.
Great as always! Thank Alex 😊
Could you do a video about the future of Shorad?
Will short range air defense provided by the laser stryker? Will the Bradley replacement IFV XM30 function as an anti air cannon? Should the US look at the SkyRanger / Skynex / millenium gun system? And will there be a Stinger replacement with a better battery, targeting, and most importantly more affordable? Or is this affordable future the APKWS guidance upgrade for the cheap and plentiful Hydra 70mm rocket? Should we slap that on Avenger Hummvees? Or IRIS-T?
Great work, Alex. Now LONG is gonna be nervous again.
Alex saying “AIRPOWER” would never get old
We already had this in the 1960's! It was the Mach Ten SPRINT Missile.
China: i thought they had to be 1000 miles closer to launch aircraft from their carrier! We cant target them with our hypersonics!
Usa: WOMP WOMP (sends hundreds of arrows from carrier borne aircraft, taking out targets outside of chinese range)
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It's almost like being able to strike your target from beyond their own range is why the Aircraft Carrier supplanted Battleships as Capital Ships
That's fake news period
😂....nice.
Dude, thank you for breaking it down in detail. You rock! 🤙🤙
WOW THE BOTS ARE OUT HEAVY FOR THIS ONE. AT HYPERSONIC SPEEDS 😂
I was gonna say the same, trollskies working overtime.
Thank you for the excellent clarification on hypersonic missiles and the meaning of hypersonic on whether it is an adjective or not.
"The test was successful."
_"Define successful?"_
"Um... uh... that's classified."
Thank you for your work and factual based research we can count on being factual, it is much appreciated!!
On April 27, 2022, Russia announced the development of a new hypersonic-guided missile codenamed Gremlin. The missile will be smaller than Kinzhal. Its carriers are Tu-22M3 strategic bombers, Su-57, Su-30SM, and Su-35S fighter jets. Su-57 can carry Gremlin inside the fuselage.
Okay, but where are the Su-57s in the first place?
@@crowe6961 They are awaiting the F22! Just F16! Where are the F22?
@@idarpolden5913 The F-22 has secret sauce in it, they are not and never will be available for export. Also, NATO is not overly concerned about an actual handful of Su-57s and their truly mediocre stealth capability, an entirely new generation of air superiority fighters is in development from the American NGAD program. They had a prototype flying years ago, and the Air Force and Navy have their own projects. The F-22 is from the 90's, albeit with upgrades.
@@crowe6961 Since F22 is for display only, we could have sent the F35 instead of the F16 to fight the Su-57 with S-70. Somehow Clownskyy didn't even want the F18 either. F16 isn't that great on the bombed runways.
@@crowe6961 The SU-57 is actually using the Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B over Ukraine. See the attacks far inside Ukraine like the Patriot attack. Notice the clear stable video of the attacks.
My friend is retired Air Force and while working on his Master's degree in 1996 he did a report on the x-51 hypersonic test vehicle at that time. Have you ever heard of the x-51?
I never heard of it. At any rate it can't beat the Russian and Chinese HYPE-Sonic weapons. They all fly the speed of light and have a trillion miles range, It maybe be 20 trillions miles range. I can't read Russian or Chinese but in on their Website.
Just another great video in a series of amazing videos. Thanks, Alex.
Saying russia and china cant match usa is a big mistake imo
Underestimating any adversary, is always a fast road to failure. But, I think that is the reason, that the USA designed, and built the ARRW. They didn't know for sure if Russia's claims of successful hypersonic technology was to be believed, or not, so they took Russia at their word, and designed a weapon that can match the claim. I think the US military does this often. They hear that an adversary has a more potent means of attack, and without complete verification of whether or not the claims can be substantiated, they just have to take those claims to be a real threat, and build their own means, to match that unproven claim.
@@Inertia888 We in Moscow had no doubt that the Americans would create something. Sooner or later. There are scientists everywhere. Try to bring this rocket of yours to the series, we'll see how you do it. In the meantime, we are building faster rockets using already proven technologies.
@@Redfvvglike how Ukraine just use drone that you can’t even defend against
@@Hmonks Even you won't be able to heal from this. But nothing, Russia began to produce modern drones, and there are many times more of them.
I think the real key is a "maneuverable" hypersonic missile.
The reason is because if truly hypersonic, no signals can get in or out because of the plasma around the missile.
Now, it maybe that the initial aiming for a target, starts out headed to a slightly different location and then after a specific time in flight, steering could be actuated which in turn changes its path to hit what was actually the real target. What this would amount is making a preplanned adjustment in flight, strictly based on the timing of when the adjustment occurs.
The missile will not know where it is at and can not see the actual target. As with a high speed ballistic missile it is on a ballistic path. But if you initially aim 10 mile left of the target and then precisely at the correct time, steer right, the adjusted ballistic path would be to take it where you actually wanted it to go. But the missile can not home in on a target because it is blind. Nor can it know that an intercept is on the way and try to evade. So any maneuverability is merely a very precisely time deception/diversion, pre -programmed in.
This inability of a hypersonic missile to be "smart" because it is "deaf and blind", makes it just another ballistic missile. As I understand it, the inability to defy physics is what was driving cancellation. But pre-programming a diversion, could make it harder to intercept assuming the enemy didn't know the real target. Unlikely that they wouldn't know what they were trying to protect.