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2020-09-14 Science & Technology
Russia's new Skyfall missile will be able to fly around Earth for YEARS and ready to launch nuclear strike at any moment, Britain's defence intelligence chief warns
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-14 07:29|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Sounds more like SkyNet
Posted by Mercutio 2020-09-14 09:48||   2020-09-14 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 First it has to fly 30 seconds. And how are the Russians planning to store the missiles after the reactor is tested?
Posted by Ulolump Grumble1426 2020-09-14 10:37||   2020-09-14 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Won't this be bad for the ozone layer or something?
Posted by Raj 2020-09-14 10:50||   2020-09-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Carbon emissions...not in my stratosphere!
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 10:52||   2020-09-14 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 So it's essentially an orbiting weapons platform.
I thought those were banned...
Posted by ed in texas 2020-09-14 11:18||   2020-09-14 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I think it's an 'air breather', Ed.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-14 11:21||   2020-09-14 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 How'd a air breather fly for months?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 11:24||   2020-09-14 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Purchase StarShip heavy flights to install Rods From God in space! Enough RODS to cover the earth all the time. Also the same for Bright Pebbles.
Posted by 3dc 2020-09-14 11:35||   2020-09-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 "Moscow is testing a subsonic nuclear-powered cruise missile system"

9M730 Burevestnik

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-14 11:45||   2020-09-14 11:45|| Front Page Top

#10 And if it were to be lased over North America, where would it land?
Posted by gorb 2020-09-14 12:19||   2020-09-14 12:19|| Front Page Top

#11 In the words of Dr. Strangelove - "Ve determined that this vaz not a practical deterrent for reasons that are now all too obvious..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-14 12:22||   2020-09-14 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Would be a damn shame if that thing malfunctioned and disintegrated over Moscow.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-09-14 12:40||   2020-09-14 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 The air is used to transfer momentum. The heat is produced by a fission reactor. There's no chemical reaction involving any component of the air.

This is functionally a remotely controlled nuclear powered jet plane.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-09-14 12:45||   2020-09-14 12:45|| Front Page Top

#14 How'd a air breather fly for months?

Nuclear powered ramjet. Project Pluto
Posted by Croger Slamp6200 2020-09-14 13:29||   2020-09-14 13:29|| Front Page Top

#15 ^Thanks
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 13:43||   2020-09-14 13:43|| Front Page Top

#16 So:

1) Nuclear weapons missile will be launched.

2) The target will be struck based on target data sent during flight.

That is what this amounts to.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-09-14 15:28||   2020-09-14 15:28|| Front Page Top

#17 ....HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaNO.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-09-14 16:50||   2020-09-14 16:50|| Front Page Top

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