Hypersonic Missiles vs ICBM's - Which is better?
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The major nuclear powers have used ICBM's as the mainstay of their defence strategy for 60 year or so and even built some form of anti-ballistic shield to protect against. But in the last decade or so a new type of hypersonic missiles have been developed that promises to make ICBM's redundant but will they just fuel a new arms race as everyone one struggles to make them work in a reliable manner. So how do they compare to the decades-old tech of ICBM's and are they any better?
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You NEED to watch this video before you buy your first ICBM.
But it didnt give me the most important info, where can I get an insurance for it?
I accept 1% deposit.
I almost bought quite a certain amount of V2 because Germany but now I think different.
Yes this really helped me when buying my first ICBM. Now i think i may get a Hypersonic Missile
buy it quick ATF doesn't have a tax for it yet.
I'll sleep easier tonight knowing that I could be incinerated quicker in jig time without that tiresome delivery lag. Tardy thermo nuclear annihilation just isn't cricket.
If it was going to happen I'd rather not know about it in advance , I'd much sooner just be vaporised than sit there shitting in my pants for 20 minutes before hand.
@@garageflower7154 same
Paul's arsenal of shirts can deal with both ICBM and hypersonic missiles at the same time.
They are also banned under various treaties. :-)
So can Joerg Sprave’s stafety T-shirts, I’ve heard...
@CAV M but without the nonsensical ramjet design in the thumbnail please 😅
Unfortunately, they can also be migraine inducing. Has happened to me a few times now.
Lol I loved today’s shirt. I was looking for the link to Paul’s clothier?
this kind of stuff makes covid-19 seem like a warm fuzzy teddy bear
HUMANS! Cannot afford to fight a serious virus. Spends 100 of billions on weapons to kill themselves a 1000 times over. No wonder Aliens never visited us - we are total idiots!!
Sort of, but at the same time, all the brain power, labor and resources going into developing this shit could have been used towards stuff like preventing pandemics or having better logistical systems in place to comfortably maintain a lockdown without people going hungry etc. Anyways, we're still possibly in the early parts of the Covid-19 crisis and the death toll could easily start mounting well in the millions or even tens of millions in a month or two.
nope, just 1 super contagious deadly virus is needed to wipe us all on the face of earth, these missiles will be useless..
@@TorbenRudgaard you know every single major weapons and military development has in some way benefited the entire populous. Satellites, radar, computer chips, fuel propellant, planes, vehicles, and generally a stronger military just made things less violent ironically, since a conflict would be quite costly and not worth it since the inception of international trade and economic growth and the maximisation of trade efficiency. Also, pretty much every country only spend about 3% or less of their GDP on the military and 15 to 20% on healthcare, and another 20 to 30% on social welfare, so I don't see your point really.
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It's been a while Paul, we missed you
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Been a while, but definitely worth the wait. High quality content documentary as always.He almost makes the whole effort look easy. Almost :)
@@VladR1024 These are also among the most relaxing informative videos, on UA-cam and elsewhere, IMHO. I'm prone to deceiving myself into thinking they'll help me fall asleep, but they're too interesting ;-)
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@Jim Jones youre incredibly right, Paul has the appearance of an engraving or woodprint, or a "Wild West newsprint font" on a poster, or a daguerreotype from an earlier age, of a bare-knuckles boxer
One other problem with hypersonic weapons is that while they are maneuverable, that maneuverability sucks! Pilots of the SR-71 discovered this when their guidance systems failed on occasions. Even with electronic flight control systems, a turn at those speeds could take an entire US state to complete. This is true of even unmanned missiles. It's not so much how much g-forces are involved but simply the speeds involved.
..I love the SR-71.. it's top speed is still classified as well as it's top altitude.. if you look at a simple diagram of the SR-71 engine it looks like it's the very first scramjet engine... well after certain things were enabled and it changed it's engine usage.. which is insane
this is not important. All that matters in this schenario is that the hyper sonic evade an interception. Not hitting a bullseye.
At the speed these missiles are moving at, even miniscule maneuvering ability creates a massive number of potential places that the missile might be at when any attempted interceptor missile reaches it, which makes successfully intercepting the missile essentially impossible
Well no shit not meaning to be rude or nothing but imagine driving a bmw on the highway at like 300kmph it will take a long distance to make any direction changes. Same for a plane.
Stealth extra high explosive (extra poundage) cruise missiles would be better I think..
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Nah, I think even an uncultured person can read the word 'missile' and be like: W H E R E D O I B U Y I T
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Not a great review in any case...I'm still undecided which way to go!
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Engineers: We thought of another thing that will kill us all
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Why do you think engineers are the ones initiating the process? You are so confused.
mami can how many political leaders do you know who can even work out simple budget sheets? If leaders didn’t hire actual smart people to make their weapons, we’d still be using clubs.
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Wow, we're really good at making up ways to blow each other up.
Ironically, the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation is how world peace has been maintained for the last 60 years...
When “no u” is weaponized, it’s a weapon of peace.
a mouse would never invent a mousetrap
- Albert Einstein
@@DonVigaDeFierro You mean, "helped to avoid direct confrontation"? Because it seems USA in a couple of months will create yet another war somewhere in Africa or Asia, this time against China's interests.
@@adampedersen5384 Quite true.
this is easily the most concise presentation on hypersonic weapons I have seen!
It seems having a capable ballistic missile submarine force, both nuclear and conventional, is even more important now to keep secondary strike options available.
Yeah, but having submarines is extremely expensive compared to having ICBM launch systems on the ground. Still, for countries that don't seem to mind the extra expenses (ehem, the US), having a capable submarine fleet over any other nuclear delivery system is the most sensible option.
I still remember the face of a friend of mine when i told him the the ICBMs the US keeps on its homeland are a “Nuclear Sponge” to draw in enemy warheads that could be better used somewhere else since the main nuclear missiles bearers are the nuclears subs.
@@Alvi410 It's not a party till the silo starts rockin' ...
@@Alvi410 Did he work at an ICBM silo?
You have to find the Sub first. With natural circulation of the reactor and advanced sound dealing measures and Astute class And the Dreadnoughts are pretty much a hole in the water
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Then why was it recommended, huh?
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@@trumanhw Uh huh. Fun tidbit: did you know that the FBI worked directly for the US President for the past four years? Not the one there now, but the guy before him. Blonde, overweight, is such a giant snowflake that he screams at even the slightest criticism. You know the guy, can’t miss him.
I prefer to use a railgun system to launch WMD's, and to have said system on a bipedal mech. I think some people at Shadow Moses were working on something like that
The Horse-leaf's Cabbage if you hit something decently big like a hypersonic missile with a railgun all you would do is turn it into a cloud of debris heading for what ever the target is I would think tho right?
Nah, I heard that project at Shadow Moses was shut down due to a series of fatal accidents. Apparently some crazy nutjob running around destroying secret US property.
I am partial to the "rods from God" concept, myself. ;-). I often wonder if something like that has already been deployed.
", and to have said system on a bipedal mech"
If I didn't know this was a metal gear reference, I'd be talking about just how stupid it would be to use a bipedal mech as the weapon's platform.
Personally, I prefer building a giant complex composed of eight giant railguns guns networked to a very sophisticated computer to hit virtually anything with extreme accuracy. It not only can target at extreme ranges, but it also doubles as a decent anti-air and anti-ballistic defense, especially against meteors.
4:58 Depressed trajectory, you say?
Yeah I know what that feels like Mr. Hypersonic Missile... But don't worry things will get better.
It won't get better
Missiles are made to explode. But before then they are kept locked up and by the time they're launched they are very very sad. I think that's why its called that.
Don't worry mr.missile, it will all be over soon.
One could call it "flattening the curve" if that makes one feel better...
I vote for *Admiral-General Haffaz Aladeen's missile*
You mean president-prime minister Aladeen.
The Beard of Doom rocket?
That's a very Aladeen missile
*waves hand across throat*
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if only he lived long enough to get a hypersonic missile to Daenerys
I shouldn't have laughed at this, but I did anyway.
I started watching his vid since 2 years ago never missed a vid since
Another relative weakness of hypersonic missiles is the massive fuel requirements to fly that fast in atmosphere. This is illustrated by the fact that supersonic anti-ship missiles are enormous relative to their subsonic equivalents & often must fly well above sea level to conserve fuel. Meaning that warning times for supersonic & subsonic anti-ship missiles are in practice quite similar.
Which is overcome mostly by using oxygen from atmosphere. Hipersonic are also much slower than ICBMs, with friction being v^2, crusing hypersonic is facing much less friction.
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I second this.
Good call.
A video about the safer, low pressure molten salt reactors of all flavours would be interesting to watch.
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I just love this kind of presentations. Where would our technology be without this "my dad is stronger than your dad" arms race?
“Which is better”? Don’t you mean which is worse?
For the country that have it it is better
for the mentally disturbed countries : American, Russia, China, India, Pakistan etc. its better but for us normal not wanting to destroy every last single human being its worse and point blank retarded(as the above countries) Next up underground nukes wich will trigger at the centre of the earth just so we are sure to kill everything and no future (probly smarter life) is possible
@@gruisman Glad you got that off your chest? 😂
@@gruisman lol bro underground nukes have been a thing since the nuke existed
@@nicolaspohl5470 I mean next up : Nuking the centre of the earth. not just underground nukes, we really have to make sure the earth wont survive ofcourse. So lets move our asses to Russia and put a nuke into their deepass bore hole or lets nuke mariana trench.
Most people don't even think about an ICBM being hypersonic, actually. Most MIRV warheads travel at like Mach 18+ coming back in. Also, the USA presently has the SM-3 missile that has previously knocked down an old wayward US spy satellite years ago (they blew it up to avoid any danger from the fuel tank upon deorbiting). It travels at like Mach 10. Then there was the Sprint missile back in the 70's...I think that was Mach 10 in 5 seconds from launch? The video is on youtube.
Saw a new episode pop up and I started watching it right away. This is such a great channel!
Mans unending quest to destroy itself as creatively as possible.
the fact that many country has the capacity of anihilating big chunks of the earth is the Reason why there has not been a war between two nuclear countries.
The technology behind these systems is brilliant, the fact that these systems are getting developed isn't...
Say thanks to US unilaterally withdrawing from ABM treaty in 2002 and putting ABM sites in Europe and Western Pacific
@@TheTazzietiger US military also created the dark web
I know its wishful thinking. But Imagine if the US, Russia, and China put this Arms Race money into space exploration instead of on military weapons, we would be on Mars already.
Or fusion
@@fryncyaryorvjink2140 even with that money, fusion'd probably be another decade or more away, it's incredibly expensive and we still are trying our best to master our understanding of the technologies required and the science behind creating a stable nuclear fusion reaction
The world would be a much, much better place if nations stopped investing in war. The US military budget alone could probably end hunger in the world... but the powerful want to stay powerful, that's all they care about.
Russia has no money, and China kinda sucks at space...
@Anant Tiwari Yeah but can you launch those well nourished people at other countries at mach 10? I don't think so.
The only thing I know is that all of the missiles must be pointy!
*nuclear Nadal wants to know your location*
The dictator lol
Back in the '80's multiple-warhead ICBM's were equipped with shuttles that could deliver several warheads to different target cities...they were thruster-boosted to their drop positions...not unlike the hypersonic glide vehicles their trajectories were hard to predict and their destinations not obvious until the last moment and so difficult to intercept...
Thanks for this video. I’m intrigued by the development of hypersonics and have been curious about how they might be employed and how they may effect balance of power and strategic/nuclear policy. This helped. However as area access and denial weapons, they seem very potent and cost effective. Would love to see more on this topic.
Paul Shillito - the one guy on the internet who tells me a dozen or so things I didn't already know, in almost every video. The amount of work he puts in really shows. Awesome vid Paul!
I wonder how effective a sort of "Bird shot flak" would be at countering hyper sonic missiles. If one could pepper the sky where the missile is approaching, the missile would be forced to fly through a wall of bird shot at hypersonic speeds. Even one hit could cause serious damage. Sure, creating a big enough "wall of bird shot" could be difficult, but much less difficult than creating a hypersonic missile.
gotta be some big "bird shot" if it's to damage something that's able to withstand flying hypersonic speeds in an atmosphere...
The U.S. DoD called: they'd like to hire you tomorrow with a $2,000,000 sign-on bonus.
I was thinking the exact same thing
incredible how technological progress suddenly speeds up when it comes to outdoing other countries in wartime
*"Let the galaxy burn."* - Horus
Finally someone recognizing that it's basic physics that's speculated, like gravity on descent and thrust by mini explosions touching atmosphere and lack of friction on ascent -possibly shutting down fuel outside those "touches" to save it, these vertical waves being intended only to continuously accelerate and not to fool chasers, this being only a side effect. The 10 Mach + speeds are achieved on the last portion of trajectory only -when they "disappear" from radar. Indeed once accurately established in a powerful computer on ground, the optimal trajectory depending on the distance to the target, a fixed table of such trajectories is loaded with a simple interpolation logic, so once the target coordinates are loaded the optimal trajectory is easily established by interpolating existing data and some random but fixed zigzag added at the end. To get this data however some homework must be done: correct physical phenomena and parameters introduced in the flight simulator software -on ground, by many corrective experiments done with much cheaper 10/20 times smaller rockets, some AI and numeric algebra algorithms used for faster results. Even Putin admitted that any country having cruise/ballistic missiles can soon have it, like Pakistan or Egypt. It will be very sad to realize later that war in Ukraine lasted more than 6-9 months, while most countries having cruise/ballistic missiles could have had it in 2-3 months sparing a million civil lives, as now Putin has the upper hand and tries to take the maximum profit while still can.
This convinced me to buy my first ICBM!
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One thing to remember is that in order to turn a projectile will lose some velocity. Hypersonics are typically going to be slower than the re-entry speed of a traditional warhead. It is almost impossible that the US GMD would stop a MIRV'd missile or two with counter measures from one of it's more advanced adversaries. It is also impossible that China or Russia could defend against one of the US's MIRV'd missiles. In the end this is a waste of money by all sides. The US would be better served with SLBMs and silo-based D-5s.
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The amount of fuel required to sustain a hypervelocity cruise missile for anything but short range must be astronomical compared to subsonic cruise missiles like the Tomahawk system.
The question is whether or not it is even feasible to develop and depoly internediate to intercontinental hypervelocity cruise missiles?
Not necessarily, because scramjets are more efficient at hypersonic speeds at high altitudes as they take in oxygen from the atmosphere and combusts it with fuel. Also, other technologies like nuclear air breathing engines can increase the efficiency. Remember that most hypersonic cruise missiles are usually side mounted onto a rocket booster that takes it a few kms up (10-45km), and once the rocket booster decouples the scramjets kick in. This could keep it below radar detection, and by the time other short range detection systems find out, the chance of interception is very low because it has broken through the first few layers of defence. Send in 10-20 of these along with a few ICBMs and there is a very high chance the enemy is screwed.
There are also MIRV ICBM which would be extremely difficult to stop. A more interesting comparison would be with a stealth cruise missile.
That shirt can be a great ICBM-deterrent.
Nice to get a unbiased review of these systems rather than the hyperbole we normally get about them.
I'll be honest.
If you are looking to create the means to nullify the deterrent capabilities of other nations so that you could possibly carry out a successful nuclear first strike then you might have to ask "are we the baddies" .
But who is the baddy if all parties have nuclear weapons and try to fond ways to bypass the deterrent capabilities of the other parties. I mean everyone is trying to be one step ahead dude.
I don't want to get hit first by a nuclear strike.
@@brucewayneisdeadpool830 The difference is one side is making sure that they retain deterrent capabilities while the other is trying to negate it so it could strike without worrying about retaliation.
Funny thing about icbm nukes: when both sides have it the side advancing defense against them is the aggressive one that's usually looking for a way to launch a first strike to force an unconditional surrender.
Blaming somebody for donning a bulletproof vest instead of blaming the guy threatening to shoot him.
@@RCAvhstape Both are pointing at each other.
I remember a great story about the Blackbird. A RAF pilot was cruising in his Lightning when he saw a strange craft. He knew it was friendly because of its markings. The Lightning was the fastest thing in the sky so when the Blackbird pilot saluted and then blew away the Lightning pilot was absolutely astonished. The bad thing about those ramjets were they were prone to backfire causing an uncontrollable spin.
Spend a few extra dollars on a mirror finish for your missiles would pretty much negate any laser based anti-missile system
I also thought of that when I was watching Star Wars
They might have trouble with that, the SR-71 was painted black rather than polished titanium because they needed the higher emission rate black provided at high supersonic speeds. I imagine the same will be true of hypersonics.
(in case anyone is confused, yes black absorbs IR at a higher rate than other colors, but the main source of heating at high speeds is air friction. So because black absorbs IR best that means it also emits IR the best and radiates away the energy from air friction faster than it accumulates it from the sun.) Now whether that will make lasers effective is really a matter of the distance from the laser because atmospheric difraction will negate even the highest power lasers at range (especially ground-based lasers).
That would only make sense for missiles which can be targeted and affected by lasers. And these are neither.
Thing about mirrors are they're only reflective in part of the spectrum (primarily visible light). Start throwing high powered masers, xasers, IR and UV lasers into the mix, and your shiny missile is still vulnerable, no matter how pure and dust-free you make its surface.
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That's a lot of damage!
Out of all the far out shirts you wear, this is my fav. Thanks for another interesting video
Whatever happened to Hypersonic Tungsten steel Phone polls being de-orbited from launch platform's. Did you know when the SR-71 was built. Americans did not have any titanium manufacturing to form her skin. In fact we ordered the Titanium to build her from Russia!
did you make the math of how much will cost, first at all, to put those "phone polls" in low orbit ? lol, I can tell you this - for each one you can build 10 or more ICMBs !
Here's a crazy idea: the country with the most nukes could offer to dismantle them if everyone else agrees to the same. We could call it a "nuclear disarmament treaty." The president to sign it would *definitely* win a Nobel Peace Prize.
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History:
"The nuclear arms race in the Cold War had at least 2 events where a global nuclear holocaust almost happened"
Arms corporation allied to the State:
"How about we do it again"
Would love to see a video on how you research the topic and collect so much info never seen before !
I need to keep one of those hypersonic missiles in my garden.
This is a lot like a debate "Which gun is best?"
The one I've got vs the one I'd like, after all, if one was desperate anything will do.
At that speed it doesn't make much difference what hits you, it's going to be an almighty bang.
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"(Hypersonic missiles) can maneuver so their course cannot be predicted.."
In my merely basic understanding of physics and the laws of motion I cannot easily imagine a hypersonic missile being able to maneuver "unpredictably" without disintegrating or crashing into the ground.
With a total flight time of less than 10 minutes I also cannot imagine the need for mid flight course changes unless targeting a relatively very slowly moving object, like a supercarrier sized ship.
But then I would at best call it a final adjustment, not even a course change never mind a "maneuver".
Let say that in the middle of the flight missile changes its course by 1 degree. After 5 minutes (300 s) it translates into cca 30 km deviations from the "original" destination. So when you consider more than 1 degree course changes done consistently throughout whole flight we are talking hundreds of km radius of possible targets. Furthermore in any point of flight missile can "hit the ground" in the blink of an eye, so you really cant predict what the real target of the missile is.
Basically this just points out the US's issue.
They invest a ton of money in a good idea for a specific scenario that proved effective at one point
Instead of developing new and useful technology
Like the new super carrier that was sunk by a single small sub in war games
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I absolutely love the shirts, but I love this channel more! Thanks again for another quality, interesting and informative video
Love the shirt, love the channel !
Great video. When you do the math you see why this new form/old form of a weapon system is so interesting. It is a kinetic weapon, at the speed it is traveling you could make it out of just metal. The resulting strike at Mach 8 would cause an energy release that by itself would be devastating. The positive part would be no nuclear radiation or fallout, but as you pointed out how do you tell it from the nuclear tipped one. If your first strike was hypersonic this would destabilize your opponent and follow you it up with the ICBMs. However, most sensible people realize that this is a akin to pissing in the pool. Once fallout goes into the atmosphere you too will have to deal with consequences. Would not put it past the CCP to use such a strike.
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This footage ... my god.
Thank you for sharing!
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Did you edit out the "dot org" in post? :D 09:47
But why?
@@utuberme1 I bet he accidentally said brilliant.com which is an entirely different website. :)
@@nitehawk86 Ah yes. That didn't cross my mind.
Thanks for the autotranslator video. As always delighted to see your content.
Great! Now we have less minutes to live from the time a missile is launched.
It's "fewer" minutes. Just because you only have minutes left to live is no reason to get sloppy with grammar...
Nice informative video without the sensationalism of media reports. Good job.
Is that a Covid-19 shirt you're wearing?
Came here to post this comment unless I found it. Had to scroll to find it. That's BS. This should be at the top!
I agree!
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Nobody's talking about FOBS - Fractional Orbit Bomb System. The system was originally designed to travel in a low-altitude (100 to 200 miles) orbit at around 18,000 mph which is orbital velocity AND its 2-1/2 to 3 times the speed of a hypersonic weapon. I don't know how low they could travel, 80 miles, 70 miles altitude, which would give targets even less time to decide what to do. Also, by putting them into a low altitude orbit, they can travel the long way around the earth to a target, instead of Siberia to Washington DC via the north pole, they can travel via the south pole. To do that with a hypersonic weapon requires a much, much larger vehicle just to hold enough fuel to make the trip.
The Outer Space treaty implicitly and SALT II explicitly ban FOBS. Of course both the US and Russia have formally or effectively withdrawn from parts of strategic nuclear weapons limitation treaties before, so a withdrawl from the FOBS part by any signer would put FOBS back on the table.
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The thing is........ even though hypersonic weapons are fast and would be very difficult to counter, they aren't easy to control due to the speed. This is a real problem in the development stages of these hypersonic weapons, all current hypersonic weapons developers are having trouble with this.
100 seconds to midnight, closest we have ever been to our extinction. These weapons are part of the reason, including many others.
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The animations might make it seems like it's absolutely impossible to take down and it's sooooo maneuverable but it's actually not that maneuverable at hypersonic speeds turning is difficult ad slow if it turned too fast it'll be ripped apart by the aerodynamic forces also turning just a few degrees would take several seconds not that maneuverable if you ask me. Sure it will be very difficult to shoot down or intercept something that can change it's trajectory mid-flight but it's not impossible especially if it's slow like this.
Also, if it turns too much at those speeds, won't it basically stall because the air flowing over the top surface creates a vacuum?
Any slight path changes will make any interceptors miss by miles because these things are moving at 10km per sec??
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@@AntiReligionistz you should look in to the x15 programm. Hypersonic is nothing new and turning those things is harder then you think. The chance of stalling is very high too.
@@riccardos2955 hypersonic is nothing new but sustained hypersonic with high maneuverability is something else
ICBMs have very effective decoys and countermeasures that circumvent anti-missile systems, and ballistic missiles release thermonuclear MIRV warheads and decoys before they begin medium or ballistic flight in space.
ICBMs are very effective, and will continue to be more effective in the future, and Hypersonic warheads will also be released by a ballistic missile.
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Good Luck tracking an object that moves at 5km(3.2miles) per second. It bases on the calculation of Mach15. Russia claims their Avangard Missiles can reach Mach27. Probably somewhere in the Mach20 range to stay realistic. US Military admits that there is absolutely no counter at the time
@@patrickeigenmann138 the computer will do it for you :)
Patrick Eigenmann well if you remember those F18 pilots tracked a UFO so I'm sure we have even better tech to track faster than potato F18 cam.
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Haha yeah creating lasers powerful enough to actually direct at a long distance and explode it will takes atleast 20 years of research , you're not gonna see actually usable laser weapons until next decade or so
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Why aren't cluster bombs used in ABM, shrapnel at that speed would be enough to disable a nuclear warhead...
ABMs use shrapnel charge and explode close to the target missile. Even then, It's still very difficult to hit and time properly though
I'm glad this video was made. Now we know which one to buy. Waiting for the unboxing video.
I swear, I keep mistaking this guy for Scott manly
Glad to know we are focusing on the big issues, like optimizing nuclear war.
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I look forward your comments.
Thanks so much.
I think he should have a business e-mail somewhere on his channel. I'd rather write to that address than hoping he will see this post. Good luck for a yes from Paul mate!
"The CIA wants to know your location"
@@Flaschenteufel I try to find his email but not find anything.
If you have his email address it will be fantastic.
Excellent video. Thanks Paul 👍🏼 شكرا لك حلقة ممتازة
I thought I was first due to seeing 'No views', then I see two other comments and 22 likes. Hey-ho.
The view count always lags behind reality. It's partly because UA-cam only counts it as a "view" if you watch a decent proportion of the video and partly because UA-cam's back-end is pretty loosely coupled and doesn't prioritize up-to-the-minute updates of the view counter.
And there's two things that you forget in this.. The highest speed that the USAF has gotten a SCRAM jet vehicle before it melts down (at least officially) is MACH 16 at 45k ft... for a vehicle the size of 3 gen 1 XBOX systems. Currently there's no nukes that small or SCRAM vehicles capable of carrying a nuclear payload. (the ones that have flown barely carry their own weight) Secondly... the US doesn't have to rely on nuclear weapons. If doomsday comes it doesn't need to come with fallout.. it can come from the 4400 tons of VX we have stockpiled.. among other agents.
8:20
What about railguns with their own hypersonic projectiles? We're already developing offensive and defensive railgun systems.
You can't shoot what you can't see
I pretty well always enjoy your videos, but this is one of your better ones - very detailed and rational, even down to the "politics" of such weapons. Well done.
As Russia citizen, its sad to see new wave of militarization
Wouldn't it be nice if Trump and Putin died of Covid-19 and highly intelligent and compassionate people took charge?
teo delfuego, absolutely
Most dangerous missile are not the one that fly fastest, but the one that cannot be detected by Radar (stealth missile), because nobody knows that your country has been attacked by it, and nobody know who is responsible.
Now we can see where the USA taxpayers money goes in the next decade.
*Decades - ftfy
Laser sattelite with machine guns on it. No joke. Google Forbes about it.
Also France and other countries.
Sorta. Excess bases, using the army like a jobs program, spending on programs that haven't proven to be worth it, and terrible accounting in some spaces, is a large percentage of that waste. R&D is absolutely a substantial part of our spending, but if you want to cut back how much we spend that'd be a great place to start. It's largely a management issue.
Exactly, stop USA getting new and improved weapons, spend it on lots of big and nice houses! That way when the Chinese invade the US they will have somewhere nice to live while you live in the street.
@@brazeiar9672 That's definitely a false choice. No-one is saying we shouldn't be able to defend ourselves. But that doesn't mean that every dollar we're currently spending on defense is even close to being necessary either, nor does it mean eevery project has to be perpetually funded regardless of results. Our military spending does have a lot of waste that we can cut w/o sacrificing defense or R&D into promising technologies.
Thank You So Much Paul & All guys who produced this "Brilliant" Video,Just like the other ones in CD Channel; Very Useful and full of information,especially about the interference problems with guiding & control such these Hypersonic Weapons in/near atmosphere which is very challenging for aerospace & telecommunication Engineers and Scientists/thanks again
2:40 This is wrong, the easiest time to intercept is during launch phase. The premises that its against North Korea and Iran is BS as well, the system is placed around Russia(Poland, Romania) and China. Even though the ones around China are more plausible, they are easily used against China and Russia.
Also: ICBMs are also "hyper sonic missiles" as they travel within the 5-25mach speed range. Again its during the start phase they are at the slowest and most vulnerable.
9:00 actualy it does change the balance of power. US ABM systems are becoming more effective, the threat of hyper sonic missiles right now is not so much against the other country but against these systems. Taking them out will take literally a couple of minutes. Also, it is the US nuclear arsenal that is more of a threat as China (and USSR during its days) maintains a No first use policy, Russian doctrine allows for use only if the countries existence is threatened. The US policy not only allows for first strike it also allows for "small scale" nuclear weapons that were just deployed on a nuclear sub. Of course lets not forget that US is the only country that has already proven to be willing to use such weapons...
9:44 No you dont!!! What you need to do is armament reduction and disarmament. Treaties such as the SALT, START and ABM are not to be dismissed but need to be improved upon. A small fraction of the money spent on these weapons would have assured a better response to the real threat to humanity such as the CV19 pandemic.
@Lockdown: A big thank you for your work! Your videos are one of the factors that keep me sane;-) Your literally "telling of the stories of human exploration and engineering" brings them to life! And then there is this unforgettable voice and your cadence! Walter Cronkite was lucky that you hadn't been born erlier! ;-)) Best wishes!
There are so many inaccurate statements and false conclusions that I cannot count...
Hypersonic missiles (HM) simply does not have any effect on MAD. The "successful" development regarding on ABM systems is limited max. 5500 km range BMs and the protected zone by a single system is no small that speaking nation wide ABM capability is simply funny even considering such small country as Israel.
HM is the new buzzword for something which can down best SAMs since the late '80s or at least mid '90s. The M5.0 target speed for today's AEGIS with best SM missiles, or any first line naval SAM and mobile SAM as long as the distance parameter (flyby or impact distance from the launcher) is smaller than 30-40 km is not a big deal.
The only point of HM is to raise the bar against defending static objects and ships. Anything below their target speed simply bypasses. But as I have said EVEN TODAY they are not impossible targets.
The ICBM and any BM above 5500 km range is so fast that currently only the AEGIS ashore and one type of SM missile of the AEGIS system can down them...
... if they are placed the projected trajectory of the target. This is why the only US ABM system in Alaska, because the missiles from North Korea arrives from there. Just use Google Earth...
Even subsonic cruise missiles can have nuclear warhead therefore that part in the video which refers to this is simply irrelevant. BMs also can have nuclear warhead.
I like this channel but this video was a VERY serious miss in topic.
HMs are simply over hyped...
Regardless of the delivery system, any preemptive nuclear strike would be akin to throwing a grenade at your enemy whilst you're both in a broom closet.
Uncle Sam needs to learn a new skill - yeah, like stop bragging about every new technology on the internet. 😜
Why do you think we appear to be behind.
US only brags about technology that people can see or it works. Russia and China are notorious for bragging about stuff they have only for the real thing to be garbage.
For every known tech the gov lets us know about, they have 2 more things that are better we don't know about.
@Abhisek Pradhan See Seth above. I'd only add that they don't have the production capacity of the US either.
@@esutboneor it's a business model - to make the new tech obsolete and having to make new stuff while cashing out again.