I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed but casualties would be 10-20 million tops.
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed but casualties would be 10-20 million tops.Stanley Kubrick (via Terry Southern, IIRC) was all over this. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was a watershed moment. Much more so than 2001 or any of his other work, IMO.
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs.
Why is Russia even using supersonic missiles, much less hypersonic?
Does Ukraine have that great of an anti-missile defense system?
Reading up on Dr. Strangelove at Wikipedia, I came upon this gem. I would never guess...Stanley Kubrick (via Terry Southern, IIRC) was all over this. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was a watershed moment. Much more so than 2001 or any of his other work, IMO.
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs.
I hope Trump's politically oh so very incorrect attitude concerning this war is one more nail in the coffin of his failed presidential aspirations going forward.
SUpersonic is prety welll your standard run of the mill missile. They used the hypersonic just to show off their capability. Another scare tactic.Why is Russia even using supersonic missiles, much less hypersonic?
Does Ukraine have that great of an anti-missile defense system?
I'd be motivated to cut the head off the snake .
Seems we're destined to share the country with morons from here on out.With Fox News's pro Russia hosts?
Millions of Americans are being conditioned to side with Putin and Trump. Millions.
Actually,
The Russian systems are not new and not all that complicated. They are not that evasive and the "maneuvering" is fairly limited (while significantly reducing the speed with each correction) and based off of basic GLONAS corrections.
Kinzhals are literally air launched Iskander balistic (developed close to 40 years ago during the Soviet era and then finally fielded in the 90's after it predecessor got trashed due to treaties) ) missiles adapted to work off aircraft weapon systems. It still follows a semi ballistic profile path. All they did was change the launch platform.
If you can defend against Scud missiles, you can defend against Kinzhals.
The Avengaurd, while notable for materials improvement is am ICBM launched unpowered glide vehicle that does all the silly things that glide vehicles do when they course correct \change. These are not "hypersonics weapons" in the scary way.
These are ballistic projectiles hooked up to GLONAS.
Hypersonic weapons that are ACTUALLY hypersonic, with low altitude trajectory and maneuverable are scary and challenging and requires multilayer defenses that will include lasers.
Russia doesn't have that.
The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ("dagger") is a Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-surface missile.[10][11] It has a claimed range of more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi), Mach 10 speed, and an ability to perform evasive maneuvers at every stage of its flight.
It can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads[12] and can be launched from Tu-22M3 bombers or MiG-31K interceptors. It has been deployed at airbases in Russia's Southern Military District and Western Military District.[13][14] The Kinzhal entered service in December 2017 and is one of the six new Russian strategic weapons unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 March 2018.
Yes, like I said, economic consequences. And the reality is, unpalatable though it may be, a nuclear armed country can gas cities without expecting a military response from countries not directly involved or formally allied. That is the reality of the leverage that nukes give you. Because it isn't rational to risk national extinction to protect another country from chemical weapons. It just isn't.
Fortunately, this is not 1939, when Germany was largely self-sufficient and barely had any foreign trade. This world is economically interdependent. For example, if China wasn't trading with the US, it's more than possible, even likely, that they would have invaded Taiwan already.
Severe sanctions won't end the murderous behavior in Ukraine, not in the short term. But give it time and it's likely to solve the problem one way or another.
Thanks. I'll read up on it. In general there is so much BS "science" and woman shaming on the whole breastfeeding/formula thing I never know if a compliant is real or not. My wife couldn't hardly produce milk, and my daughter was losing weight when she was supposed to be gaining and literally screamed all night for the first two weeks of her life, getting just a few hours of sleep a day. Doctor finally said "if she is literally screaming all night, she is probably hungry." We gave her some formula and for the first time she actually slept longer than 30 minutes. Wife went to the lactation consultants, etc, and had no improvement, could only produce an once or two at a time. I did a lot of reading of actual journal articles on the NIH's website and there is very little real data to back up all the formula hate (in the US), it's basically anti-vax by another name.
Of course in a third world country where you can't get clean water, and formula is very expensive, breast feeding has some obvious massive benefits.
Why would Iran EVER give up it's nuclear program? No country should ever give it away, ever.
And some day one of the humans in those countries will see fit to use one. Because humans are emotional, irrational creatures. If Russia cannot be trusted with not using Nukes, who can? Answer is no one can be trusted. Each nuclear nation is an additional existential threat to the planet.
Ballistic missiles either have to slow down to be manurable or go dead on trajectory, both cases give an opportunity for interception. Its why basically the most closely guarded secret the US has is how fast can their aircraft carriers move , because if you knew the answer you would know which option is best when trying to tactical nuke a fleet.Whoa there. ICBMs have always been hypersonic. They’ve been around since the 50’s. The only new thing is there are now hypersonic gliding cruise missiles.
I’m not entirely certain some of the Aegis based systems couldn’t shoot one down. Maybe someone with more knowledge could chime in.
This is just dumb logic , why cant it be intercepted? it's not like we are all using slow arse rotational beam radars. We are all active and passive phase array with beam steering based target illumination . This is just dumb people , aka jurno's, quoting dumb things.The original source of information on the missile's capabilities came from Putin and the Russian government. It's unclear if any it has been corroborated by US intelligence.
Nonetheless, media everywhere is reporting that this missile is evasive and cannot be intercepted. So if you've got a better source, please link it. If the media is getting this wrong, I'd like to know why.
there is a difference though. in the number of nukes the country has.And some day one of the humans in those countries will see fit to use one. Because humans are emotional, irrational creatures. If Russia cannot be trusted with not using Nukes, who can? Answer is no one can be trusted. Each nuclear nation is an additional existential threat to the planet.
This position is a tremendous selling point for Iran, NK, Pakistan or any other country to aquire nuclear arms.
Commit genocide in Iraq? We invade and topple govt.
Have nukes? Ah well.. Nothing we can do, gas away and we'll wag our finger from a safe distance.
Why would Iran EVER give up it's nuclear program? No country should ever give it away, ever.
Remember when the us assassinated bin Ladin?
Is Putin's whereabouts known?
Ground detonation. Airbursts do a lot of destruction to infrastructure, but don't tend to generate a lot of dust in the air. Ground detonations send shitloads of irradiated material upwards, which then spreads out via wind currents.So, if Siberian airbursts would doom us all, why aren't we all dead after Bikini Atoll, Vegas and all of the other airburst tests of the 50s?
For Irpin specifically, it appears that the Ukrainian military has cleared enough that the standard police forces can resume peacekeeping duty. That's pretty damn solid evidence of their success there.Ukraine still claiming they have a substantial amount of Russian troops surrounded.