‘We Just Don’t Know’ How to Defend
Against Possible Chinese Hypersonic Missile:
US Ambassador
Epoch Times,
by
Andrew Thornebrooke
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/19/2021 11:13:54 AM
A new investigative report by the Financial Times asserted that China launched a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, which circled the earth in a low orbit before cruising toward and narrowly missing a test target. The Chinese regime has officially denied the report’s findings, saying that the object in question was a spaceship.
U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said that Washington is concerned about China’s possible deployment of hypersonic weaponry, and said the United States hadn’t developed a means of countering it.
“Hypersonic technology is something that we have been concerned about, the potential military applications of it and we have held back from pursuing, we had held back from pursuing military applications for
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 10/19/2021 11:22:50 AM (No. 950747)
Ambassadors, especially under Dems, are often just some guy who contributed a bunch of money to the Dems to get himself into a position of power and to play 'big league games' and go to fancy parties in other countries.
They don't have to have any knowledge or brains for the job these days. He probably has no idea what he's talking about.
And, even if true, we'll know where it was launched from, and who to "thank" with a couple of dozen in response. Deterrence still has the same value.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 10/19/2021 11:30:34 AM (No. 950756)
Since "space" cannot be "owned" by any sovereign nation, and since the one and only purpose of a hypersonic missile is war, Joe Biden should just tell the Chinese that the US will shoot down the next one they send up and if they want to have a World War III, let it begin now and in "space." It's either that or we all start learning to speak Mandarin, and I took the first step by mastering the phrase "Ta ma de China," loosely translated as "Let's go, Brandon"!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 10/19/2021 11:32:02 AM (No. 950757)
Chinese hypersonic nukes are a non story. They use what is essentially an icbm to put the thing into low orbit. They could just as easily use that icbm to drop multiple larger nukes. None of which we could defend against.
I hope the Chinese waste zillions building and maintaining this pointless weapon.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
moebellini3 10/19/2021 11:43:27 AM (No. 950774)
That's true but China knows better than to attack us. Although weakened by the Biden administration China also knows our country is the economic engine that keeps them going. Hurt us and the destroy themselves.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/19/2021 11:48:31 AM (No. 950780)
Assured destruction is the answer. The same as always in Nuclear wars.
The only way to stop it is to ensure that whoever started it does not survive to brag on it.
I believe we can do that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 10/19/2021 11:49:57 AM (No. 950783)
Bulltwinkie. They stole the plans from us. We know how to defend against it because we designed it. Want to shoot one at us? Go ahead make my day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 10/19/2021 11:51:41 AM (No. 950786)
'We Just Don’t Know’ How to Defend Against Possible Chinese Hypersonic Missile'
Ask PDT. He has the best connections. He will complete the job on time and under budget.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
proximo 10/19/2021 11:55:51 AM (No. 950794)
A nuclear attack on the US by any country would bring an instant response from our nuclear armed submarines and surface ships. China would only be assuring its destruction. This missile is only a credible threat if there is no credible US counterattack. The whole point of M.A.D. is that there is always a credible, and massive, counterattack distributed over international waters.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kono 10/19/2021 12:04:26 PM (No. 950803)
We must have orbiting eyes to detect such a missile and track it. What could be missing is a connection between the tracking tech and a means to shoot such missiles down once we've spotted them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/19/2021 12:10:38 PM (No. 950808)
The only sure way to defend against one of these things is a first strike, on the ground. Another way is to release clouds of tough ballons in the probable flight paths. Hypersonic glide vehicles must be built tough, but the equivalent of a bird strike will take something going that fast, down.
Put enough gunk in the air, in its way, and it will never reach the target.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/19/2021 12:21:40 PM (No. 950829)
Poster 8, the reason i think they did this test at this time, is that they're almost ready to take Taiwan. Half of any tyrant's power is fear.
"Surrender to us or be annihilated. " "If you try to stop us from 'reclaiming' Taiwan, we will annihilate you..."
Hitler used this very successfully as he picked off little counties around Germany, in the run up to WWII.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 10/19/2021 12:23:11 PM (No. 950830)
powell changed parties when hussien was "elected" know why. skin!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 10/19/2021 12:25:21 PM (No. 950836)
I wonder just how much the classified nuclear weapons technology the Clintons gave the Chinese in the 90's played a part in the development of this weapon?
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Do you really believe the Chinese are more technologically advanced than the United States? If so, they likely stole the basic technology from us with the help of our politicians and university administrators.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 10/19/2021 12:43:00 PM (No. 950873)
To a certain extent, I think some of these UFO's that military personnel have spotted over the years are special craft designed by a skunk works type of department in the military, and they are testing how they operate against the most advanced aircraft in the world which just happens to be U.S. military aircraft. The pilots of these planes coming off an aircraft carrier wouldn't know anything about them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 10/19/2021 12:45:38 PM (No. 950876)
#14 Yes, I do believe that the Chinese technology is ahead of hours. They have ours, and they have theirs. You explained very effectively how they got it. Well said.
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STFV, you stupid toolbag. Ambassadors aren't qualified to speak to anything relevant at all. Most are nothing but political hacks on the receiving end for a big favor.
Think the Chinese could stop a Trident D-5 MIRVing over Beijing? They can't, so shut your damn mouth, libturd.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
KatieJo 10/19/2021 1:13:15 PM (No. 950907)
I have zero faith that the people in power would do anything do defend us from China. As a matter of fact, I think they have already "sold us" to the Chinese. After what we just witnessed in Afghanistan?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/19/2021 1:29:11 PM (No. 950925)
Maybe if we just had more diversity and inclusion training we could figure it out.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Penney 10/19/2021 1:30:02 PM (No. 950928)
With, 'friends,' like the Biden gang, who needs enemies?!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/19/2021 1:58:08 PM (No. 950959)
Fire him and get somebody who does know. That is what you want for a job. Someone that knows.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 10/19/2021 2:19:20 PM (No. 950985)
#9, they are already in place, see every significant launch or above ground detonation. This is how we saw the South African/Israeli nuke test in extreme south ocean decades ago.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 10/19/2021 3:29:19 PM (No. 951060)
Last time I looked, "Ambassador" doesn't appear anywhere in the Pentagon planning staff, or the chain of command.
They only show up on the social schedules.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/19/2021 4:11:06 PM (No. 951099)
Don't kid yourselves that a nuclear capable hypersonic missile is no different from an ICBM. The U.S. has been working on such a project since the late '80s. Maneuverability can be achieved outside of Earth's atmosphere by differential firing of rocket thrusters and within our atmosphere with aerodynamic control surfaces, similar to ailerons and rudders on conventional aircraft. Plus our hypersonic R&D has resulted in the development of Pulse Detonation Engines (PDE), a propulsion innovation that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture, thought to be ideal for hypersonic flight. PDEs were conceived as far back as 1940 but the technology to make it operational was lacking until more recently. The ability to steer a nuclear weapon into the side of a mountain to disrupt deeply buried command and control facilities, like we have a Cheyenne Mountain, our NORAD operations center in Colorado, among other tactical and strategic uses, provides capability not found with ICBMs.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/19/2021 7:07:20 PM (No. 951257)
Re #24, thanks.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
rochow 10/19/2021 7:58:20 PM (No. 951321)
Is this 'ambassador' the dumbest piece of wood you have ever heard talking??? Someone remove this piece of trash immediately! OOOps, I forgot, didn't we just let the world know how many atomic weapons we have??? Right, it was the clown administration with a vegetable in 'charge', we have to let our enemies know what we have and what we don't! Great policy!!!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 10/20/2021 6:10:50 AM (No. 951589)
I know what to do. Get rid of the people running out country.
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So tell the world that we don’t know what to do about it? The article tells us all about what makes a HGV so unique, and that the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) has been working on this for years. U.S. intelligence didn’t get the memo?