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2018-08-11 Science & Technology
U.S. would need a mega-constellation to counter China’s hypersonic weapons
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Posted by 3dc 2018-08-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
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#1  What about Mutual Assured Destruction?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-08-11 00:50||   2018-08-11 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 They are Correct.
Posted by newc 2018-08-11 01:01||   2018-08-11 01:01|| Front Page Top

#3 You mean the answer is spending huge sums of money on new, untested solutions that will fail and make the defense industries rich? Wow, what an unusual conclusion.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-08-11 01:04||   2018-08-11 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Or you can go after the manufacturing and launch points.
Posted by Glirt Dingle2497 2018-08-11 05:29||   2018-08-11 05:29|| Front Page Top

#5 re: "new, untested solutions", not necessarily. There's been a lot of discussion between US officials and commercial microsat companies on this, emergency GPS backup and other missions.
Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-08-11 07:37||   2018-08-11 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 If only we had a third leg of nuke deterrence, like, say, a submarine or three, Loaded with nuclear tipped missiles. Off their coast?

Nahhhhh
Posted by Frank G 2018-08-11 07:56||   2018-08-11 07:56|| Front Page Top

#7 The Pentagon admittedly is already
five to 10 years two Obama terms
behind in the development of an anti-missile
system to thwart advanced hypersonic weapons

Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-11 08:34||   2018-08-11 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 #1 Only need someone with the 'football' whom the enemy believes will actually use it.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-11 09:14||   2018-08-11 09:14|| Front Page Top

#9 All I can say is turnabout is fair play - I trust one of our 3-letter agencies is working day/night to steal the shit out of their plans and nullify their '10-year' lead. I know they're also supposedly leading in quantum encryption. We better be stealing that shit too.
Posted by Jack Bonaparte7513 2018-08-11 11:42||   2018-08-11 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The senior management of those alphabet soup agencies has been focused on diversity and correct thinking for the past decade. Counting on them to do the messy work of spying against China would be hard since it would be “racist “...after all, China is full of Asians.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-08-11 11:50||   2018-08-11 11:50|| Front Page Top

#11 ...seems the Ivy League's racial discrimination and lock on three letter agencies means humint is not going to be much in the cards.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-11 12:45||   2018-08-11 12:45|| Front Page Top

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